Meet APPPAH Award Winners
Wendy Anne McCarty with Thomas Verny
At the recent APPPAH Conference, Wendy Anne McCarty, PhD RN was awarded APPPAH's top award-The Thomas Verny Award for Excellence in the Field of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology (PPN). She is truly a PPN luminary and has been a clinical PPN pioneer with young children, babies, and families for over 30 years.
She co-founded BEBA with Ray Castellino, a nonprofit devoted to providing leading-edge PPN
(l) Wendy Anne McCarty, PhD RN (r) Thomas Verny, MD
oriented therapy for babies, children and families and teaching professionals. She co-founded and co-authored the curriculum for the first PPN graduate degree programs at SBGI and taught the PPN graduate courses for 12 years.
Dr. McCarty authored the book, Welcoming Consciousness, a PPN-oriented early development textbook and has written over 30 publications including being guest editor of JOPPPH and contributing four JOPPPH articles.
Dr. McCarty was the Director of the 12 Guiding Principles - Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Project in which leading PPN clinicians collaborated to produce a document that now APPPAH has adopted and endorsed as the core principles distilled from PPN findings, values, recommendations.
Dr. McCarty has consistently been at the leading-edge of exploring the multidimensional nature of babies and how we can support the integrity of their whole being from the beginning of life. She is a clinician, an early development theorist, an educator-presenter, and global consultant to families, professionals, and organizations.
"Wendy Anne McCarty is a fantastic presenter whose work helped create our field of practice. I recommend learning from her, especially her work with mothers and babies."
- Kate White, Education Co Director
Dr. McCarty is giving a special PPN Live Webinar Series beginning March 13, 2018hosted by Kate White.
PPN Therapeutic Play with Babies and Kids - Series #1 For Office and Home - Pros and Families
March 13, 20, 27 - 1.5 hours each - open to everyone
PPN Play Therapy - Series #2 for Professionals Follow-up Study Group Series
April 10, 17, 24 - 1.25 hours each
Open to all professionals supporting families.
Series #1 is a pre-requisite for enrolling in Series #2.
In Dr. McCarty's words:
In each class of Series #1 and #2, I will give you a powerpoint presentation, share family stories, show clips from my BEBA clinic and private practice video archives, and dialogue with you to answer your questions.
Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology (PPN) oriented therapies have developed ways to identify and help babies, children, and families heal difficult early experiences and transform them into more life-enhancing experiences of being in the world. PPN-oriented therapeutic play is an effective way to do this and can be done in the office with a PPN professional and also at home with parents perceiving and engaging their children with this purpose in mind.
Kids have portrayed so many of their early PPN stories in my presence during therapeutic play.
I now have retired from providing in-person PPN play therapy, but I continue to consult with families and mentor them to incorporate PPN-oriented play in their lives. Babies, kids, and families have taught me SO MUCH over the years. I want to give forward some of the gems I have learned to help you.
For more information and to register click here.
For more with Dr. McCarty:
www.12guidingprinciples-ppn.com
www.wondrousbeginnings.com
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She co-founded BEBA with Ray Castellino, a nonprofit devoted to providing leading-edge PPN
(l) Wendy Anne McCarty, PhD RN (r) Thomas Verny, MD
oriented therapy for babies, children and families and teaching professionals. She co-founded and co-authored the curriculum for the first PPN graduate degree programs at SBGI and taught the PPN graduate courses for 12 years.
Dr. McCarty authored the book, Welcoming Consciousness, a PPN-oriented early development textbook and has written over 30 publications including being guest editor of JOPPPH and contributing four JOPPPH articles.
Dr. McCarty was the Director of the 12 Guiding Principles - Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Project in which leading PPN clinicians collaborated to produce a document that now APPPAH has adopted and endorsed as the core principles distilled from PPN findings, values, recommendations.
Dr. McCarty has consistently been at the leading-edge of exploring the multidimensional nature of babies and how we can support the integrity of their whole being from the beginning of life. She is a clinician, an early development theorist, an educator-presenter, and global consultant to families, professionals, and organizations.
"Wendy Anne McCarty is a fantastic presenter whose work helped create our field of practice. I recommend learning from her, especially her work with mothers and babies."
- Kate White, Education Co Director
Dr. McCarty is giving a special PPN Live Webinar Series beginning March 13, 2018hosted by Kate White.
PPN Therapeutic Play with Babies and Kids - Series #1 For Office and Home - Pros and Families
March 13, 20, 27 - 1.5 hours each - open to everyone
PPN Play Therapy - Series #2 for Professionals Follow-up Study Group Series
April 10, 17, 24 - 1.25 hours each
Open to all professionals supporting families.
Series #1 is a pre-requisite for enrolling in Series #2.
In Dr. McCarty's words:
In each class of Series #1 and #2, I will give you a powerpoint presentation, share family stories, show clips from my BEBA clinic and private practice video archives, and dialogue with you to answer your questions.
Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology (PPN) oriented therapies have developed ways to identify and help babies, children, and families heal difficult early experiences and transform them into more life-enhancing experiences of being in the world. PPN-oriented therapeutic play is an effective way to do this and can be done in the office with a PPN professional and also at home with parents perceiving and engaging their children with this purpose in mind.
Kids have portrayed so many of their early PPN stories in my presence during therapeutic play.
I now have retired from providing in-person PPN play therapy, but I continue to consult with families and mentor them to incorporate PPN-oriented play in their lives. Babies, kids, and families have taught me SO MUCH over the years. I want to give forward some of the gems I have learned to help you.
For more information and to register click here.
For more with Dr. McCarty:
www.12guidingprinciples-ppn.com
www.wondrousbeginnings.com
