PPN Findings: A Call to Evolve Early Development Theories and Models
PPN Findings: A Call to Evolve Early Development Theories and Models
An Overview
The field of prenatal and perinatal psychology has decades of clinical evidence and experience that expand our current early development understandings to a greater multidimensional lens.
Often when professionals enter the PPN field of literature and training, there is a disorientation of how to make sense of PPN findings when compared to currently held mainstream early development and early relationship theories and research.
Dr. McCarty has traversed this territory for three decades and offers this class to help participants navigate in their exploration and to suggest ways to evolve your own creative synergy of traditional and PPN-oriented models.
About Wendy Anne McCarty
PhD, RN, HNB-BC, DCEP
Co-founder, chair, core faculty of first prenatal and perinatal psychology graduate degree programs, SBGI. Co-founder, primary therapist BEBA, a non-profit PPN-oriented baby-centered family therapy. Early development theorist and author of Welcoming Consciousness-An Integrated Model of Early Development and over 40 PPN-oriented publications. Keynote presenter and trainer for professionals. Global consultant/mentor to families and professions. Recipient of the APPPAH 2017 Thomas Verny Award for Excellence in the PPN field.
Readings Recommended Prior to Class
McCarty, W. A. (2012). Welcoming Consciousness: Supporting Babies Wholeness from The Beginning of Life–An Integrated Model of Early Development. Santa Barbara CA: Wondrous Beginnings Publishing. (Online bookstores carry print and kindle)
McCarty, W. A. (2002b). The power of beliefs: What babies are teaching us. Journal of Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Health, 16, 341-360.
PDF of Selected Publications Included in Course
Your Instructor
Nina holds a masters in Clinical Psychology with a specialty in Somatic Psychology from Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. She is a graduate and mentor of APPPAH’s Prenatal & Perinatal Educator certification program (PPNE) and has been creating connection and working with babies in person and virtually for over 10 years. In her work with private clients and in workshops, Nina blends Western somatic and prenatal and perinatal psychology with Eastern spiritual healing knowledge. Prior to accepting the Director role for APPPAH, Nina lived, studied and taught at Sri Kaleshwar’s Soul University, in India for 5 years and most recently worked in an Integrative and Functional Medicine Pediatric clinic in the US, where she saw a greater need for prenatal and perinatal educators to be integrated throughout our medical, mental and behavioral health and educational systems internationally. Recently moved from CA, USA, Nina resides in Leipzig, Germany with her husband and her 5 year old son. Nina believes through expanding our view on conception, pregnancy, birth, and parenting, we will create new generations of strong, conscious and loving children, equipped to face the challenges of our modern and unstable world.