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Oxford Parent-Infant Project (OXPIP)
@oxpip.bsky.social
Free parent-infant therapy for any parent/carer and baby in Oxfordshire, from conception to two years. We also provide professional training, consultation and supervision. Find out more at oxpip.org.uk
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I am very much looking forward to my @oxpip.bsky.social online lecture on #Attachment and #Child #Development: From #Myths to Modern #Neuroscience.

📅 03 October 2025, 13:00-15:00

🎟️ Tickets are still available: tickets.sheepcrm.com/.../67ee7a6a...

It would be a great pleasure to see you there.
September 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Her boots are made for walking and that's what they're going to do! Please do consider sponsoring our CEO this weekend
June 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Pick me up, please!

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May 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Good luck Karen! We’ll be rooting* for you

Please do support Karen if you can. All money raised is being doubled by a matched funder.

(* niche pun for those who know babies 😎)
It's nearly time to get my hiking boots on for a massive mountain walk I'm doing to raise money for Oxford Parent-Infant Project .

@oxpip.bsky.social does amazing work & every £ raised will be doubled by the Big Give, so please do pledge if you can.

Pledge form here: forms.office.com/e/bMjXZcdW3k
May 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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It's nearly time to get my hiking boots on for a massive mountain walk I'm doing to raise money for Oxford Parent-Infant Project .

@oxpip.bsky.social does amazing work & every £ raised will be doubled by the Big Give, so please do pledge if you can.

Pledge form here: forms.office.com/e/bMjXZcdW3k
May 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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📣Free webinar 📣

Join us to hear about the free @nspcc.bsky.social Look, Say, Sing, Play resources which support interaction between babies & adults. For everyone who cares for/works with babies, including parents & practitioners.

June 10th 1-2pm. Sign up here: app.sheepcrm.com/oxpip/events....
May 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
📣Free webinar 📣

Join us to hear about the free @nspcc.bsky.social Look, Say, Sing, Play resources which support interaction between babies & adults. For everyone who cares for/works with babies, including parents & practitioners.

June 10th 1-2pm. Sign up here: app.sheepcrm.com/oxpip/events....
May 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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This year, I am especially delighted that our Chief Nursing Officer for England has chosen to draw attention to the vital work of health visitors for #IND2025 🌟Duncan was full of praise for their professionalism, dedication & skills👏
Happy International Nurses day from @ihealthvisiting.bsky.social 👇
On International Nurses Day #IND2025 we are delighted to have Duncan Burton @Duncan_CNO, shine a spotlight on the important role of #HealthVisitors and public health nursing on this very special day in the nursing calendar.
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#HealthVisiting #teamCNO
May 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We provide psychotherapy to parents and carers in Oxfordshire who want some help to feel closer and more connected to their new baby. Getting feedback from parents we work with is the best part of our job.
May 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
You can now get 10% off our short courses using an early bird discount code:

EARLYBIRD25

Browse our courses on Attachment, Assessing Parent-Infant Relationships, Working with intergenerational trauma (ghosts in the nursery), and An Introduction to Watch Wait & Wonder at oxpip.org.uk/training
May 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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We have a few places left on our Watch, Wait and Wonder (an introduction) training day on May 2nd (online, £271)

Learn about WWW theory and understand how to facilitate parents' capacity to observe, recognise and understand their baby's cues

Info/book: app.sheepcrm.com/oxpip/events...
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March 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Fantastic research job opportunity here 👇🏻 working with the lovely and brilliant @ruthndwrites.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
Jobs - The University of York
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April 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Mental health problems can cast a long shadow over a child's life. But this isn’t inevitable. We’re backing @centreformh.bsky.social advice to the Government so that every child has the best chance of good #MentalHealth
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#InvestInChildhood
April 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
5 days left before we choose a winner to receive a free copy of Sue’s book. Re-post this item to be in with a chance.
Today, OXPIP's founder Sue Gerhardt launches her new book "1001 days: How Our First Years Shape our Lifelong Health".

We're giving away one free copy chosen at random from the people who retweet one of our social media posts by 8th April.

Available to purchase from today.
April 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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We’re giving away one free copy of Sue Gerhardt’s new book. Re-tweet the post below to be in with a chance. Winner will be chosen at random on April 8th.

Good luck!
Today, OXPIP's founder Sue Gerhardt launches her new book "1001 days: How Our First Years Shape our Lifelong Health".

We're giving away one free copy chosen at random from the people who retweet one of our social media posts by 8th April.

Available to purchase from today.
March 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We’re giving away one free copy of Sue Gerhardt’s new book. Re-tweet the post below to be in with a chance. Winner will be chosen at random on April 8th.

Good luck!
Today, OXPIP's founder Sue Gerhardt launches her new book "1001 days: How Our First Years Shape our Lifelong Health".

We're giving away one free copy chosen at random from the people who retweet one of our social media posts by 8th April.

Available to purchase from today.
March 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We have a few places left on our Watch, Wait and Wonder (an introduction) training day on May 2nd (online, £271)

Learn about WWW theory and understand how to facilitate parents' capacity to observe, recognise and understand their baby's cues

Info/book: app.sheepcrm.com/oxpip/events...
SheepApp
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March 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Another large, longitudinal study, this time the ECHO study, finds that higher scores on measures of early parent-child relationships are linked to better child health & well-being.

#TheBig3 risk factors are Poverty/ACEs/PAIRS

Study data available on request for secondary analysis
bit.ly/4hnZoPq
Early Relational Health: A Foundation for Healthy Development Across the Lifespan
We grow up in the context of our relationships with others. This concept is central to early relational health, the notion that safe, stable, and nurturing relationships (SSNRs) in early childhood bui...
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March 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Babies learn best from those who respond to their babbling! 👶✨ @juliaavenditti.bsky.social, @mikehgoldstein.bsky.social et al. (2025): infants form stronger social expectations when their babbling gets a timely response—even from a robot car! 🤖🚗 #infancypapers #EarlyYears doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Contingency enables the formation of social expectations about an artificial agent
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March 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Today, OXPIP's founder Sue Gerhardt launches her new book "1001 days: How Our First Years Shape our Lifelong Health".

We're giving away one free copy chosen at random from the people who retweet one of our social media posts by 8th April.

Available to purchase from today.
March 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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March 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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So excited to see this launched, amazing work by a great team 🙌
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CTM Baby and Toddler Voice Statements Launched
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March 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
OXPIP supports the British Psychological Society’s call for more investment in parent-infant relationship teams. Parents want vastly better access to advice, support & help if their relationship with their baby has gets derailed. @bpsofficial.bsky.social
March 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
New paper confirms that we haven't yet cracked the issue of finding a reliable, valid, frontline, cheap/free, quick and easy way to assess parent-infant relationships which can also be used as a pre and post measure. The search continues! Full paper out soon

bit.ly/4il9ulo
Frontiers | Assessing the parent-infant relationship: A two-stage, COSMIN-informed systematic review evaluating clinician-rated measures
Background: The parent-infant relationship is important for healthy infant development. Parent-infant assessments can aid clinicians in identifying any diffi...
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March 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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On 26 Feb, Mind in Mind is hosting an event on the Still Face Procedure. This procedure has been crucial for psychologists' understandng of the relational dynamics of trust &distrust. Here is my own video on it, filmed 30 years ago. (Gosh!) @garethkthomas.bsky.social
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Disconnection and the Still Face Paradigm
YouTube video by Suzanne Zeedyk
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February 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM