Chris Yelland
Senior Clinical Psychologist Helen Mayo House
Chris Yelland is a Senior Clinical Psychologist who has worked with the South Australian Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) for 28 years. For the past 18 years she has been a clinician at Helen Mayo House, supporting women in the perinatal period experiencing a range of mental health disorders including Borderline Personality Disorder. Chris has been involved in the development and facilitation of the Mother-Infant Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (MI-DBT) Program since its commencement. She continues to be a group facilitator, as well as providing support and supervision to other staff and services involved in delivering the program across South Australia.
Mother Infant – Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (MI-DBT):
Everything You Need To Know About Running A MI-DBT Program.
MI-DBT is an adaptation of traditional DBT for mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder and their infants. As well as teaching skills to manage the emotional and relational demands of parenting babies and toddlers, the program also encourages parents to interact and respond to their infants in ways that support the development of the infant’s own emotion regulation abilities and interpersonal/relational skills.
This full day workshop will provide an overview of the MI-DBT program including the traditional DBT skills taught, specific examples of how these skills can be applied to the infant-parent relationship, and additional content that specifically focuses on supporting the infant’s own emotional and relational development. Practical considerations of running a MI-DBT program will also be discussed.