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Miriam Silverman

Visiting Faculty, Department of Cognitive Sciences and Psychology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri

Qualification: BSc in Psychology, PysD in Psychology, Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health Reflective Practice Facilitator Mentor
Research Interest: Pre and perinatal psychology, social-emotional development, prevention & early intervention, addiction, domestic violence, system consultation

Bio Publications Conferences and Workshops
Bio

Miriam Silverman is a clinical psychologist and Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health Reflective Practice Facilitator Mentor. For more than 20 years, she worked at the Infant-Parent Program at the University of California, San Francisco where she provided infant-parent psychotherapy; developmental assessments; mental health consultation to childcare programs; consultation to residential drug treatment for women and their drug-exposed infants; consultation to Certified Nurse Midwives and Public Health Nurses; therapeutic playgroups for toddlers and preschoolers; training/supervising interns and professionals in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health practices; and co-directing of the Infancy and Early Childhood Mental Health Consortium, a five-year SAMSHA federal grant in 11 counties and three states. She is a long-standing faculty of the Program for Infant-Toddler Caregivers where she teaches across the United States on early childhood social-emotional development and home visiting. Before becoming a psychologist, Miriam created and implemented outpatient drug treatment programs for adolescents; worked as a lead counselor at a residential drug treatment program for women and their drug exposed infants and toddlers; provided school-based psychotherapy for elementary school children; and group therapy services for women and teen girls involved in violent relationships. She has been in private practice for almost two decades specializing in work with neuro-diverse young children and their families.

Publications

Journal Article

Year : 2019

Reflective Capacity: An Antidote to Structural Racism Cultivated Through Mental Health Consultation

Cite this Research Publication : Miriam E. Silverman, Margaret S. Hutchison "Reflective Capacity: An Antidote to Structural Racism Cultivated Through Mental Health Consultation", The Authors. Infant Mental Health Journal published by Wiley Periodicals, 2019

Conferences and Workshops

Conferences and Workshops Attended

  • “WestEd Program for Infant/Toddler Care – California Department of Education, Child Development Division: 2023
  • Vicarious Trauma & Self-Care – Shifting Burning with Healing Presence, Virtual – Oakland, CA, 2021
  • Risk and Resilience in the Community, Family and Child – Virtual Home Visiting Institute, CA, 2016
  • Risk and Resilience in the Community, Family and Child – Home Visiting Institute, Berkeley, CA, 2015
  • Risk and Resilience in the Community, Family and Child – Reflective Practice in the Educare Silicon Valley Program, Silicon Valley, CA, 2015
  • Understanding Children’s Behavior: Supporting the Individual Needs of Infants and Toddlers – Trainer Institute, Washington, DC, 2014
  • Risk and Resilience in the Community, Family and Child – Home Visiting Institute, Virginia, 2013
  • Understanding Children’s Behavior: Supporting the Individual Needs of Infants and Toddlers – Trainer Institute, San Diego, CA, 2013
  • Risk and Resilience in the Community, Family and Child – Home Visiting Institute, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2012
  • Understanding Children’s Behavior: Supporting the Individual Needs of Infants and Toddlers – Trainer Institute, Atlanta, GA, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
  • Risk and Resilience in the Community, Family and Child – Home Visiting Institute, Virginia, 2011
  • Risk and Resilience in the Community, Family and Child – Home Visiting Institute, Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, Washington D.C., Millbrae, CA, Berkeley, CA, 2011
  • Understanding Children’s Behavior: Supporting the Individual Needs of Infants and Toddlers – Trainer Institute – Tulsa, OK, Dallas, TX, 2010
  • Understanding Children’s Behavior: Supporting the Individual Needs of Infants and Toddlers – Trainer Institute, Atlanta, GA, San Diego, CA, Berkeley, CA, West Point, NY, 2009
  • Understanding Children’s Behavior: Supporting the Individual Needs of Infants and Toddlers – Trainer Institute, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2008
  • Understanding Children’s Behavior: Supporting the Individual Needs of Infants and Toddlers – Trainer Institute, Tulsa, OK, Oklahoma City, OK, 2007
  • Understanding Children’s Behavior: Supporting the Individual Needs of Infants and Toddlers – Trainer Institute, San Diego, CA, 2006
  • Understanding Children’s Behavior: Supporting the Individual Needs of Infants and Toddlers – Trainer Institute, Baltimore Maryland, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2005
  • Understanding Children’s Behavior: Supporting the Individual Needs of Infants and Toddlers – Trainer Institute, 2004
  • Understanding Children’s Behavior: Supporting the Individual Needs of Infants and Toddlers – Trainer Institute, 2002
  • Understanding Children’s Behavior: Supporting the Individual Needs of Infants and Toddlers – Trainer Institute. Brains on Drugs – Women, Substance Use and an Innovative Midwifery & Mental Health Partnership, American College of Nurse-Midwives 61st Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Albuquerque, NM, 2016.
  • Attachment, San Francisco County Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Retreat, San Francisco, CA, 2015.
  • Helping Families in Crisis, Venice Family Clinic, Venice, CA, 2014.
  • Your Brain on Drugs – The Neurobiology of Addiction and the Reward Pathway, Training for San
    Francisco General Hospital Medical and Administrative Staff working with pregnant substance users,
    San Francisco, CA, 2014.
  • The Neurobiology of Addiction, Presentation for UCSF Complex Cases: Advanced Nurse-Midwifery Management course, San Francisco, CA, 2014
  • Risk and Resilience in the Community, Family and Child for the Public Health Institute – California Home Visiting Summit, Sacramento, CA, 2013.
  • Training Institutes, Georgetown University Center for Child & Human Development, Institute on mental health intervention approaches for infants, toddlers and their families, 2004.
  • West Hawaii Mediation Services, Workshop on basic mediation
    skills for everyday living to parents, educators and businesses, 2000.
  • Juvenile Probation Department, Seminar to probation officers on the assessment and treatment of substance abusing adolescents, 1996.
  • West Hawaii Mediation Services, Presentation aimed at helping volunteer mediators work effectively with angry, conflictual clients, 1995.
  • Salvation Army Family Treatment Services, In-service program to increase clinicians’ understanding, sensitivity and efficacy in their work with clients involved in domestic violence, 1994.
  • Family Peace Center, Conducted the Domestic Violence Group Facilitators’ Training, 1992.
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