AAIMH VIC Event

Sound Beginnings: Musicking within Perinatal and Infant Mental Health


DATE:            13th March, 2025
TIME:             6.30pm - 8.30pm (AEST)
WHERE:         Live Webinar
Registration: Visit Website 
Cost:               $20 (AAIMH Members) $40 (Non-Members) 
Please ensure you register once only.
A zoom link to join the seminar will be provided to registered participants on Wednesday 12th March (please remember to check your junk mail if you have not received the link).

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
This online workshop will offer a virtual workshop designed for perinatal and infant mental healthcare professionals which will include:

  • Research on infants auditory development and prenatal singing to support maternal and infant well being and foster prenatal connection.
  • Sharing the evidence-base around the role of "musicking" and music therapy for supporting infant mental health and perinatal mental health.
  • Music therapy clinical case examples across acute medical and community contexts.
  • Discussion of the intersection and relevance of music and matrescence for the families we support.
  • Engagement in a group, virtual musical experiential activity and sharing of relevant resources for use in clinical practice.


THE FACILITATORS
Dr Elizabeth McLean (she/her) is a Registered Music Therapist (RMT, PhD), certified Motherhood Studies Practitioner and Mum of three. Over the past 15 years, Elizabeth has worked as a music therapist in acute paediatrics, early intervention and perinatal mental health, supporting infants, children and their caregivers and families in the hospital and community settings. Elizabeth has completed additional training in high risk infant clinical assessment skills and completed her PhD, exploring the role of parental musical engagement to support the early parent- infant relationship and parental identity construction in the hospital setting. Elizabeth is current Founder and Director of ‘Vital Voices’, a private practice offering perinatal & early years music therapy and mother care support for mothers, infants, children and families.

Lauren Khalil-Salib (she/her) is a Registered Music Therapist (RMT) with additional training as a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Music Therapist (NICU MT) and has undertaken Advanced Training in Infant Mental Health. She has previously worked in acute paediatrics at The Royal Children’s Hospital across a range of speciality areas, including the NICU and Infant program and now runs her own Private Practice LA Therapy, providing clinical services, consultancy and program development services, central to early intervention and infant neurodevelopment and mental health. Lauren is passionate about supporting infants in the community who require long and/or frequent admissions into hospital and is co-developing education modules to support families and healthcare professionals caring for these infants.


This will be a great opportunity for our Infant Mental Health Community to gather together, to connect and support one another.

Please share with your networks!