"Infant mental health screening and interventions in primary care in Denmark"
Prof Mette Skovgaard Væver, University of Copenhagen

Abstract:
How do we systematically put infant mental health and socioemotional development on the agenda in primary care? In her presentation, Mette Skovgaard Væver, will present experiences and results from studies of infant mental health screening and interventions in the Danish primary care system for infants and their parents. She will present results from the Copenhagen Infant Mental Health Project, including findings from a RCT evaluation of the Circle of Security – Parenting (COS-P™) and an evaluation of the implementation and validation of the Alarm Distress Baby Scale (ADBB) as a screening tool in primary care. Further, she will present preliminary findings from a study of the universal intervention Understanding Your Baby aimed at first time parents, where the ADBB observation is used by health visitors as the context for psychoeducational knowledge-sharing with the parents regarding the infant’s socioemotional development. Finally, Mette Skovgaard Væver will introduce a newly started project, where a universal intervention to promote playful parent-infant interactions is being developed and evaluated.

Presented at WAIMH 2024 Interim World Congress
June 6th, 2024 Tampere, Finland