Early childhood is a critical time for development. In early care settings, children need to develop a wide range of cognitive skills and social/emotional competencies to support their success throughout their school career and into adulthood. In other words, children learn to go to school so that later, they can go to school to learn.

The COSC Approach incorporates a vast body of research in attachment and developmental psychology. Children learn within the context of relationship, so it is not surprising that secure attachment to early care providers has a significant positive effect on children’s school readiness and learning. Attachment theory, in general, and COS, in particular, provide critical organizing principles for the development of teacher-child relationships.

Early care professionals make a commitment to a child’s education, but children benefit when there is a deep commitment to the whole child. The relationship quality with a teacher affects not only academic outcomes, but also behavioral and emotional outcomes now and into the future.

We will have a range of online short courses created in collaboration with the Center of Perinatal Excellence (COPE) available later in 2023.

The Circle of Security® Parenting™ program is based on decades of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened.

Although the original course is designed for parents to understand their children, The Perinatal Professionals Hub would like to invite Perinatal mental health professionals:

- To explore the content and reflect on how it might be applicable to your clients.
- To reflect what might show up for you when working through these concepts and how to be mindful of your own experiences.

Working with parents with intrusive thoughts or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), whether in the context of maternity care, maternal and child health care or psychological therapy, can be very confronting and anxiety provoking for health professionals.  This full day workshop aims to boost your knowledge and confidence in this area so that you can respond in a regulated and helpful way.