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Dr. Sam Jinich teaches
pregnant and expectant couples and new parents of infants and toddlers what to expect during the transition to parenthood.
Dr. Jinich has been certified by Drs. John and Julie Gottman and the Relationship Research Institute to teach the Bringing
Baby Home workshop.
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Currently Dr. Jinich has no scheduled workshops. For a private consultation
call 415-474-6414
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Therapy during this stage of life will
help you by: 1. Equipping
you with the knowledge and skills you will need to deal with the inevitable changes in your relationship once the baby arrives,
including dealing with conflict and maintaining your own intimacy.
2. Keeping fathers involved with their baby.
Research has shown that a warm, emotionally available father is the best predictor of how the baby will turn out as an adult.
Fathers are extremely important in the infant's intellectual and emotional development, and they provide things that mothers
do not provide.
3. Increasing your understanding of the baby's development and how to play with young infants
and be responsive to their emotional nonverbal signals.
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This workshop is
the only such research-based and research-tested educational program in the world, and the early data suggest that it is working.
After the baby's first year of life, couples who have been through this program do not have a decline in relationship satisfaction,
they do not have much hostility between them, and they do not suffer the depression, but couples in the control group do suffer
all these ill effects of the transition to parenthood. The Relationship Research Institute’s initial results examining a small
pilot sample suggest that the Bringing Baby Home workshop also has benefits for parent-child interactions. Compared to control
families, those who participated in our program showed: better parenting skills reflected through more positive baby affect,
and higher quality father involvement evident through interactions during father-baby play.
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