For the first week in June, I helped to co-facilitate an international training course with Claudia, as well as Francesca Lionetti, a qualified trainer from the University of Pavia, Italy. A wonderful engaged group of participants completed the course, from all around the world, including Belgium, Norway, Turkey, Greece and the Netherlands. The training course is really varied in content, and includes delivering a number of lectures and workshops on the background and theory behind ViPP, the structure of the manualised intervention, the practicalities involved in delivering ViPP (such as the equipment needed – including lots of toys!), watching practice film clips together, and working towards helping participants start to practice and prepare the intervention through the use of workshops and role plays.
Earlier this month, I was fortunate to spend a week in the Centre for Child and Family Studies, at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. The Centre for Child and Family Studies is a leading centre in the attachment field, with a number of pioneering researchers based within the Centre. In particular, the early-years attachment-based parenting programme ‘ViPP-SD’ (Video Feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting, with sensitive discipline) was developed by an eminent group of researchers at the Centre (including Femme Juffer, Marinus van IJzendoorn, Marian Bakermans-Kranenberg and Judi Mesman). ViPP is an exciting and novel brief programme delivered to families at home, using film clips of parents interacting and playing with their children. The aim of the programme is to help families build on positives within their relationships and the times they spend together, focusing on children’s communication and behaviour, ultimately helping children build strong positive attachments with their caregivers. The programme has been found to be effective with families across the World in a number of different settings and with children of varied ages, but typically focusing on children under five years old. The University of Leiden now runs a specialist ViPP training centre, the first of its kind, headed by Claudia Werner.
This was a fantastic and interesting opportunity for me - as well as being a challenge at times! I learnt an incredible amount as I watched and joined Claudia and Francesca delivering the training. The group who attended the course were an absolute pleasure to train, and it was really rewarding to see them all developing their skills and knowledge throughout the week. I am now really looking forward to hearing about their experiences of putting ViPP into practice in their varied clinical and research settings.
I was really fortunate to be awarded a grant by the European Erasmus+ Staff Training Programme. This is a fantastic scheme which enables staff employed by Higher Education Institutions to spend up to five days working, training and teaching at specific Academic Institutions within Europe. I would like to extend my thanks to the Erasmus+ programme for helping to fund my trip to Leiden. I would highly recommend others to apply for this grant; it has really enhanced my own training and learning, as well as allowing me to build links with researchers and clinicians from around the world.
My journey with ViPP now continues with my involvement with the ‘Healthy Start, Happy Start’ research trial we are running at Imperial. Watch this space for future ViPP training events…..!
I was really fortunate to be awarded a grant by the European Erasmus+ Staff Training Programme. This is a fantastic scheme which enables staff employed by Higher Education Institutions to spend up to five days working, training and teaching at specific Academic Institutions within Europe. I would like to extend my thanks to the Erasmus+ programme for helping to fund my trip to Leiden. I would highly recommend others to apply for this grant; it has really enhanced my own training and learning, as well as allowing me to build links with researchers and clinicians from around the world.
My journey with ViPP now continues with my involvement with the ‘Healthy Start, Happy Start’ research trial we are running at Imperial. Watch this space for future ViPP training events…..!
I began my journey with ViPP in November 2012, when I attended a 5 day training course at the University of Leiden. Following this, my involvement with ViPP has continued to grow, starting with delivery of the intervention as part of a pilot study at Imperial College London, working on modifying the programme for use with mothers and fathers together, to now being a qualified advanced intervener and supervisor for ViPP. As we embark on a large study at Imperial College, using ViPP within NHS settings, I am now completing the steps required to become a trainer of this intervention myself.
Author: Jane Iles
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