Scope of UAIMH:

• To facilitate cooperation among individuals and agencies concerned with promoting conditions that will bring about the optimal development of infants and infant-caregiver relationships.
  
• To encourage the realization that infancy is a sensitive period in the psychosocial development of individuals.
  
• To promote education and research of the effects of mental development during infancy on later normal and psychopathological development.
  
• To support the implementation of evidence-based programs of promotion, intervention, and prevention designed to foster positive infant-caregiver relationships.

Aims of UAIMH:

• To promote the understanding of infant mental health issues and the development of programs to enhance infant mental health.
  
• To discuss and share questions, problems, issues, information and theories regarding the mental health of infants, their families, parents, and other caregivers through meetings and other formats
  
• To disseminate research and to educate health care professionals who study and/or care for infants.