2025 Mothering from the Inside Out Didactic Training December Day 2

December 5, 2025

Mothering from the Inside Out is an evidence-based intervention delivered in substance use treatment settings that help mothers with substance use disorders foster parent-child attachment, cope with stressful parenting situations, and promote their child’s healthy development. This four-day counseling intervention course both improves parent-child attachment and decreases rates of drug relapse among mothers. The proposed mechanism of action targeted by the intervention is a change in parental reflective functioning, defined as the capacity to recognize and make sense of mental states (especially emotional states), and understand how they influence behavior and relationships. This training in this intervention entails a total of 16 hours of didactic lectures.

Provided by:

The Department of Healthcare Delivery and Population Science and Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education

Target Audience

This course is designed for : Substance use Treatment Counselors

Learning Objectives

As a result of attending this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1| Define the terms “mentalization” and “parental reflective functioning” and describe their functions in human relationships and parenting specifically
2| Discuss the underlying role of parental reflective functioning in the intergenerational transmission of addiction, adversity, and attachment
3| Apply knowledge about substance use and parenting research to understanding how interventions are developed and tested in families impacted by parental substance use.

Course summary
Course opens: 
12/05/2025
Course expires: 
12/31/2025
Event starts: 
12/05/2025 - 10:00am EST
Event ends: 
12/05/2025 - 3:00pm EST
Part of: 
2025 Mothering from the Inside Out Didactic Training - December
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DIDACTIC TRAINING

DAY 2 – December 5, 2025

10am-12pm and 1-3pm

SECTION 1

Scientific and Theoretical Foundations

Time

Teaching Activity

Materials

10-10:05am

Start Recording!

Welcome back, reminder of learning climate shared agreements, and check-in

 

10:05-11am

  1. Mentalizing as a core human relational capacity: parent mentalizing for self (52-57) (Jess)

PPT

11-11:45am

  1. Mentalizing as a core human relational capacity: parent mentalizing for child and ACTIVITY (58-67) (Beth)

PPT

11:45am-12pm

  1. Mentalizing as a core human relational capacity: disruption/impairments, and ACTIVITY (68-79) (Jess)

PPT

LUNCH 12-1pm

1-1:35pm

  1. Finish mentalizing as a core human relational capacity: disruption/impairments, and ACTIVITY (68-79) (Jess)

PPT

1:35am-2:35pm

  1. Mentalizing - Let’s Practice, PDI videos (80-88) (Amy)

PPT

2:35-2:50pm

  1. MIO overview (3-17) (Amanda)

PPT

2:50-3pm

Check-in with Learners & Closing (Lili)

    1. REDCap evaluation

 

Hybrid
Springfield, MA
United States

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Individual's Role in Activity

Financial Relationship Disclosure

Discussion of
Unlabeled/Unapproved
Uses of Drugs/Devices
in Presentation?

Elizabeth Peacock-Chambers, MDCourse Director/ SpeakerNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo

Amanda Lowell, PhD

Planner/SpeakerResearch funding, Alkermes,IncNo
Amanda Zayde, PsyDPlannerNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Briana Jurkowski, B.SPlannerNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Emma Baar-Bittman, LICSW, MAPlannerNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Amy Sommer, MSWSpeakerNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Jessica SchmaelzleSpeakerNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Beth MarronSpeakerNo relevant relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.

Amanda Lowell, PhD receives research funding from Alkermes, Inc. All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

None of the other planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

Accreditation Statement

imageIn support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 



Credit Designation Statements

Social Workers (ASWB)
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Baystate Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program.  Organization, not individual courses are approved under this program.
Baystate Health maintains responsibility for this course.  Social workers completing this course receive 16.00 continuing education credit(s).

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Mental Health Counselors
Baystate Health is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider, (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. (ACEP #5684)
Mental Health Counselors completing this course receive 16.00 clock hours.

imageThis activity was planned by and for the healthcare team and learners will receive 16.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

 

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