Please join us to explore this important topic with Jennifer Havens, MD Arnold Simon Professor and Chair Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

The centrality of early attachment to health is undisputed, as is the relationship between disrupted early attachment and health and mental health problems across the lifespan. Despite this knowledge, the historical development of American psychiatric nosology has blocked our ability to identify early adversity as an etiology of disorder, with significant implications for diagnostic and treatment specificity. Evolving beyond these limitations has the potential for delivery of much better services to our most challenged children and families with much better outcomes.

Participants of this webinar will be able to: 

• Understand the factors that promote or undermine the development of
  attachment and understand the relationship between disrupted early attachment and mental health problems
• Understand how the development of American psychiatric diagnostic nosology affected our ability to identify early adversity as an etiology of disease
• Understand the need for evolving service delivery strategies to more
  effectively ameliorate the impact of trauma on young children

This webinar is for all of those working in the perinatal period as well as children birth to 5 and their families

Date & Time:

Monday, November 9, 2026

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM