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This workshop will help you to apply attachment principles in your work with children, adolescents and their families to improve treatment outcomes. You will learn practical strategies that can be used effectively in any clinical setting to help clients recover from early life wounds, build new attachments, or repair ruptured relationships. You will review key attachment principles and explore the most common disruptions to healthy attachment. Most of the workshop will focus on practical application of strategies for working with parents, adolescents, children and the family system.
Learning outcomes:
Discuss the foundational concepts and essential research pertaining to attachment theory
Describe how stress, trauma and adverse experiences affect child development
Explain generational transmission of attachment style
Demonstrate accurate attunement to verbal and non-verbal communication in children and adolescents
Examine the pivotal role emotion has in forming attached relationships
Demonstrate affective and reflective skill development in children
Discuss rapport building approaches with various parental responses to therapeutic engagement
Apply attachment principles in family therapy setting
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