Full Course Description
Neurobiology of Attachment: The Power of "We" | Live
Program Information
Objectives
- Analyze how relationships are shaped by early attachment histories to better understand your clients.
- Evaluate how each form of attachment influences the capacity for future closeness and impact on relationships in clients.
- Justify how “sense of self” does not have to be limited to the body so clients can have healthy relationships.
Outline
Attachment Research Made Simple
- Brain-to-brain and mind-to-mind connections
- Child and adult attachment research
- How attachment relationships shape the brain
- Neural integration and self-regulation
- Interpersonal communication and interneuronal linkages
- The categories of attachment
Understanding Attachment and Relationships
- Navigate relationships and how they influence the brain and vice versa
- The importance of a “soul friend” and “feeling felt”
- How mirror neurons influence relationships
- Neural correlates of interpersonal attunement and resonance
The Essential Pathways Toward Trust, Truth and Transformation
- Illuminating the pathways of change
- Connections between the mind, the embodied brain and relationships
- Transformation to create neural integration
- Differentiate between empathy, compassion, kindness and joy
- The power of MWe
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Occupational Therapists
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychiatrists
- Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields
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05/06/2021
Attachment Begins in Utero: There’s No Such Thing as a Blank Slate | Live
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine two (2) ways that the neurobiology of touch supports a secure parent-infant attachment relationship.
- Demonstrate 3 ways to enhance secure attachments in parent-infant relationships for (or to) - outcome.
- Evaluate two ways that FirstPlay Therapy Infant Play Therapy promotes the infant-parent attachment relationship.
- Distinguish two differences between pre-symbolic play and symbolic play.
Outline
Infant Mental Health and Infant Play Therapy
- Demystifying infant mental health
- Busting the misconception that infants don’t experience trauma
- Culturally sensitive - the Therapeutic Powers of Play
Increase a Neuroception of Safety
- The parent/infant relationship is everything
- Understanding an infant’s window of tolerance
- Supporting co-regulation
- Attunement to infant cues and body language
FirstPlay Infant Play Therapy
- Ages birth to 36 months
- Developmental Play Therapy for nurturing gentle touch
- Therapeutic storytelling to facilitate a cue-based attuned reciprocal relationship
Target Audience
- Infant mental health specialists
- Occupational Therapists
- Play therapists
- Family therapists
- Psychologists
- Social workers
- School counselors
- Other mental health and professionals that work with the infants, young children and families
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05/06/2021
Attachment Ruptures and Repair in Children & Adolescents | Live
Program Information
Objectives
- Analyze the concept of relational trauma.
- Distinguish the link between interpersonal trauma and attachment wounds.
- Determine 3 ways the "Crisis of Connection" can manifest in the course of therapy.
- Utilize the analogy of “fawns in gorilla suits” and three ways it can be used in therapy with youth and family.
- Determine three unique challenges of termination with youth experiencing attachment trauma.
Outline
- Interpersonal Trauma and its Impact on Attachments
- Intrusion – if needed, distance is not required
- Stealth Therapy – therapy without calling it therapy
- Crisis of connection – therapeutic relationship threatens closeness
- Fawns in Gorilla Suits – vulnerability and protection
- Termination challenges
- Grief – longing for the missed attachment
- Case Study: 2 sisters, ages 5 and 11 confronting attachment trauma in early life
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage & family therapists
- Occupational therapists
- Speech-language pathologists
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05/06/2021
Creating Secure Attachment in Teens: Balancing Interdependence & Autonomy | Live
Program Information
Objectives
- Recognize how maladaptive attachment impacts clients’ connections and exacerbates mental health symptoms including anxiety, depression, opposition, defiance and mood stability.
- Determine the risk factors of developing insecure attachment: parental substance misuse or abuse, a mental health diagnosis in the parent or child, a child with a history of abuse or neglect, and more.
- Distinguish attachment patterns that are healthy versus those that are rooted in trauma.
- Demonstrate strategies to meet physical, emotional and mental needs to build attunement.
Outline
The Art of Compromise
- Parents Promoting Interdependence – Being the Safe Place and Secure Base
- Recognizing when Attachment with Parents has been Impacted by Trauma
- Relationship between Attachment and Mental Health
- Avoiding Attachment Ruptures
- Encouraging interdependence and autonomy
- Understanding needs
- Exploring and Expanding Peer Relationships
- Healthy and positive attachments
- Compromise and other social skills
Power Sharing, not Power Struggling
- Timeline for Success
- Parents moving into the consultant role
- Teens earning freedom by being responsible and earning trust
- Teaching recovery and problem solving
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Educators
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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05/06/2021
Expressive Arts to Build Safety and Connection with Your Most Vulnerable Clients | Live
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine four ways that expressive arts assist with the healing process.
- Distinguish between the scope of practice of talk therapy vs expressive arts.
- Design a treatment plan to include expressive arts in either their personal work with clients or as a treatment team with adjunct professionals.
- Demonstrate how to incorporate Maslow’s hierarchy of needs into your assessment and therapy practice in a creative way.
Outline
Expressive Arts with Commercially, Sexually, Exploited Youth
- Video case study
- A visual experience of art to support healing for youth who have been commercially sexually exploited
- Understand the use of expressive arts vs being an expressive arts therapist
Why the Arts Work
- Discussion on how the creative process allows for a deeper level of knowledge and understanding of self
- Assess physiological needs and safety in a non-intrusive way
- Helps to avoid or heal attachment ruptures and support belonging and love
- Builds Confidence and Self Esteem
Take Away Activity
- Maslow’s Hierarchy (allows for psychoeducation, creativity)
- Profound, powerful tool to support needs instead of assuming need
- Resources shared
Target Audience
- Social workers
- School counselors
- Educators
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Aspiring arts and play therapists
- Clergy
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05/06/2021
Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Attachment: Repairing the Internal Attachment | Live
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate the steps of working with clients' “protective parts” to improve treatment outcomes as proposed by the IFS model.
- Propose how to address the “protector” fears as they arise for the client during the therapy session.
- Apply the core concepts of IFS intervention to repair the internal disconnections created by trauma.
Outline
- Facilitate internal attachment work
- Learn to address the fears/concerns of protective parts
- Establish a trusting relationship with proactive and reactive parts
- Resolve internal conflicts
- Gain permission to proceed with healing
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychiatrists
- Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields
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05/07/2021
Emotional Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for Healing Attachment Wounds | Live
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate the EFIT model as a secure base for effective therapy with individual clients.
- Implement evidence-based stages to increase closeness, safe attachment, and connection.
- Develop client interactions that expand the client’s sense of self and open engagement with others.
- Determine how working with emotion as a key change agent will help clients move toward secure attachment.
Outline
- Employ the basic structure of emotion, as well as how we change models of self and others
- Utilize the empirically validated EFIT “roadmap” to guide clients through their vulnerability and motivation to a clear picture of stability and growth
- Validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session
- Limitations, risks, and areas for further research
Target Audience
- Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
05/07/2021
Disorganized Attachment: Don't Lose Sight of the Child in the Midst of Chaotic Behavior | Live
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine why a secure attachment is a protective factor in mental health.
- Assess the three main features of intersubjectivity.
- Distinguish how you might use each feature of PACE in developing an engagement with a disengaged child.
- Construct a story that includes the child’s trauma while reducing the fear and shame associated with the trauma.
Outline
Disorganized Attachment in Children/Teens
- Compassion for the way kids behave (it’s the behavior, not the child)
Severe Attachment Ruptures Impact on Child Functioning
- Mistrust and Self-Reliance
- Dysregulation of affective, behavioral, and cognitive states
Restoring Sense of Self and Developing Ability for Connection and Repair
- Learning to Trust with Comfort and Joy
- Transforming stories from despair to hope
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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05/07/2021
Relational Trauma and Compromised Attachment in Adulthood: From Victim to “Overcomer” | Live
Program Information
Objectives
- Apply the Life Script to assess and treat attachment patterns.
- Assess Attachment Communication Training to help couples achieve trust and security.
- Appraise experiential interventions (first year attachment cycle, inner-child metaphor, psychodrama) to promote positive change.
- Develop new neuronal networks in the Limbic brain to desensitize fear and anxiety, approach rather than avoid frightening memories and emotions.
Outline
Life Script
- Assess and treat attachment-related trauma in adults and couples
Attachment Communication Training
- Mitigate destructive ways of relating, and foster trust, safety and security in relationships
Experiential Interventions
- First year attachment cycle – psychoeducation about early childhood attachment
- Inner-child metaphor – therapeutic method to address early life perception and emotion
- Psychodrama – utilizes role play
Target Audience
Mental Health Clinicians
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05/07/2021
Boldly Showing Up - Attachment, Shame, and Vulnerability Through a Culturally-Safe Lens | Live
Program Information
Objectives
- Demonstrate how emotional literacy can increase communication and attachment within families.
- Analyze how shame, vulnerability and legacy burdens impacts family connections.
- Evaluate the impact of culture and the role of the therapist within the therapeutic setting.
- Analyze the value of looking beyond the presenting problem to explore the authentic self.
Outline
Looking Beyond Presenting Problem with a Culturally Safe Lens
- Increasing intersectionality in the therapy room
- Authentic self of the clinician within the therapeutic system
The Belief Structures of Shame and Vulnerability
- How shame shields are developed
- The effects of vulnerability and attachment
Intersectionality of Historical Family and Society Narratives
- The impact of family narratives on attachment
- How cultural beliefs and narratives affect attachment
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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05/07/2021
Neurobiology of Attachment: The Power of "We"
Dr. Daniel J. Siegel helped transform the field of psychotherapy with his pioneering work in Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB). During this keynote address, he will provide an overview of how the latest scientific research on attachment has revealed new methods to improve your clients’ well-being.
Dr. Siegel will illustrate a foundational way to view attachment and how we collectively live in this world together- that we are an individual self (me) linked and interconnected to everyone and everything else (we)- to show the possibility for deeper healing, meaning, and connections for your clinical work and beyond.
You will walk away from this keynote address with a better understanding of the impact attachment plays on shaping your clients' lives. In addition, you will be equipped with tools to help your clients make sense of their life story and heal attachment wounds to at last find a feeling of relief and able to identify who they are meant to be.
Don't miss this opportunity to add Dan Siegel's masterful insight to your work and improve outcomes!
Program Information
Objectives
- Analyze how relationships are shaped by early attachment histories to better understand your clients.
- Evaluate how each form of attachment influences the capacity for future closeness and impact on relationships in clients.
- Justify how “sense of self” does not have to be limited to the body so clients can have healthy relationships.
Outline
Attachment Research Made Simple
- Brain-to-brain and mind-to-mind connections
- Child and adult attachment research
- How attachment relationships shape the brain
- Neural integration and self-regulation
- Interpersonal communication and interneuronal linkages
- The categories of attachment
Understanding Attachment and Relationships
- Navigate relationships and how they influence the brain and vice versa
- The importance of a “soul friend” and “feeling felt”
- How mirror neurons influence relationships
- Neural correlates of interpersonal attunement and resonance
The Essential Pathways Toward Trust, Truth and Transformation
- Illuminating the pathways of change
- Connections between the mind, the embodied brain and relationships
- Transformation to create neural integration
- Differentiate between empathy, compassion, kindness and joy
- The power of MWe
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Occupational Therapists
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychiatrists
- Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields
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05/06/2021
Attachment Begins in Utero: There’s No Such Thing as a Blank Slate
New discoveries in neuroscience have shown us just how impactful in utero experiences and the first few years of life are to one’s emotional and social developmental trajectory.
The role of early life attachment relationships for optimal brain development, self-regulation, and addressing developmental trauma, impresses why infant mental health is so crucial for a lifetime of healthy interpersonal relationships.
Join Janet A. Courtney, PhD, LCSW, Founder of FirstPlay Therapy®, an Infant Mental Health & Developmental Play Therapy model to discover new innovations in the infant-parent attachment relationship. New breakthroughs in the neurobiology of touch, will show you how crucial touch is to the attachment relationship. Touch and attachment literally go “hand-in-hand”!
You’ll be introduced to an embodied infant play therapy model of FirstPlay Therapy® to promote nurturing touch to enhance and repair the attachment relationship, increase neuroception of safety, decrease anxious states, and foster co-regulation, and promote attunement to infant cues and body language.
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine two (2) ways that the neurobiology of touch supports a secure parent-infant attachment relationship.
- Demonstrate 3 ways to enhance secure attachments in parent-infant relationships for (or to) - outcome.
- Evaluate two ways that FirstPlay Therapy Infant Play Therapy promotes the infant-parent attachment relationship.
- Distinguish two differences between pre-symbolic play and symbolic play.
Outline
Infant Mental Health and Infant Play Therapy
- Demystifying infant mental health
- Busting the misconception that infants don’t experience trauma
- Culturally sensitive - the Therapeutic Powers of Play
Increase a Neuroception of Safety
- The parent/infant relationship is everything
- Understanding an infant’s window of tolerance
- Supporting co-regulation
- Attunement to infant cues and body language
FirstPlay Infant Play Therapy
- Ages birth to 36 months
- Developmental Play Therapy for nurturing gentle touch
- Therapeutic storytelling to facilitate a cue-based attuned reciprocal relationship
Target Audience
- Infant mental health specialists
- Occupational Therapists
- Play therapists
- Family therapists
- Psychologists
- Social workers
- School counselors
- Other mental health and professionals that work with the infants, young children and families
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05/06/2021
Attachment Ruptures and Repair in Children & Adolescents
Attachments are not easily made by those who experience disrupted early attachments, and typically only develop after significant struggle, ambivalence, and taking tentative steps towards connection - as not to alienate.
Of course, the other side of the coin is that once making such hard-earned connections, giving them up at termination is another significant therapeutic challenge (Gil & Crenshaw, 2017).
Join David Crenshaw, PhD, RPT-S, as he teaches you how to…
- Use an invitational approach to attachment trauma in youth
- The Concept of Relational Trauma (Allan Schore, 2012) and its contribution to potential cumulative deprivation throughout life
- Adopt Stealth Therapy in work with these reluctant youth
- Plan for and work through the Crisis of Connection
- Utilize the analogy of Fawns in Gorilla Suits in therapeutic work with youth and caregivers, teachers, and families
- Prepare for and work through grief and loss issues at termination
Program Information
Objectives
- Analyze the concept of relational trauma.
- Distinguish the link between interpersonal trauma and attachment wounds.
- Determine 3 ways the "Crisis of Connection" can manifest in the course of therapy.
- Utilize the analogy of “fawns in gorilla suits” and three ways it can be used in therapy with youth and family.
- Determine three unique challenges of termination with youth experiencing attachment trauma.
Outline
- Interpersonal Trauma and its Impact on Attachments
- Intrusion – if needed, distance is not required
- Stealth Therapy – therapy without calling it therapy
- Crisis of connection – therapeutic relationship threatens closeness
- Fawns in Gorilla Suits – vulnerability and protection
- Termination challenges
- Grief – longing for the missed attachment
- Case Study: 2 sisters, ages 5 and 11 confronting attachment trauma in early life
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage & family therapists
- Occupational therapists
- Speech-language pathologists
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05/06/2021
Creating Secure Attachment in Teens: Balancing Interdependence & Autonomy
Attachment in the teen years can be challenging to navigate. As a child transitions to adolescence, their primary attachment with caregivers now shifts to peers.
They reach for autonomy and freedom, some of which they are not ready for.
Parents must balance giving just enough but not too much freedom, modeling interdependence and relationship health…setting the child up for success instead of hard life lessons. If there’s been an attachment trauma, or other trauma, this will impact the parent-child relationship in ways that can exacerbate mental health challenges. The transition of the teenage years can then become complicated.
You’ll learn to:
- Discover ways that parents can encourage appropriate autonomy seeking
- Heal attachment trauma if it is present
- Help children to understand the shift in attachment taking place during the teen years
- Explain interdependence versus independence
- Implement interventions to use with teens and families to promote healthy attachment and avoid attachment ruptures!
Program Information
Objectives
- Recognize how maladaptive attachment impacts clients’ connections and exacerbates mental health symptoms including anxiety, depression, opposition, defiance and mood stability.
- Determine the risk factors of developing insecure attachment: parental substance misuse or abuse, a mental health diagnosis in the parent or child, a child with a history of abuse or neglect, and more.
- Distinguish attachment patterns that are healthy versus those that are rooted in trauma.
- Demonstrate strategies to meet physical, emotional and mental needs to build attunement.
Outline
The Art of Compromise
- Parents Promoting Interdependence – Being the Safe Place and Secure Base
- Recognizing when Attachment with Parents has been Impacted by Trauma
- Relationship between Attachment and Mental Health
- Avoiding Attachment Ruptures
- Encouraging interdependence and autonomy
- Understanding needs
- Exploring and Expanding Peer Relationships
- Healthy and positive attachments
- Compromise and other social skills
Power Sharing, not Power Struggling
- Timeline for Success
- Parents moving into the consultant role
- Teens earning freedom by being responsible and earning trust
- Teaching recovery and problem solving
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Educators
- Other Mental Health Professionals
- Occupational Therapists
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05/06/2021
Expressive Arts to Build Safety and Connection with Your Most Vulnerable Clients
Trauma and division are everywhere around us, which has further isolated children and adolescents and exacerbated many of our mental health concerns. Along with increases in overall rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation, many human rights organizations estimate that rates of human trafficking cases have risen by 185% in the midst of the Covid pandemic.
This is a hard population to reach as they are stuck in survival mode and continuously being retraumatized.
We may struggle to see this impact—as we are all in a collective state of overwhelm—leading us to misinterpret the trauma responses and behaviors of our clients and ourselves.
Join Dana Wyss, PhD, ATR-BC, as she shows you how expressive arts can act as a bridge between us and these clients, and how we uniquely address social and emotional needs for ourselves and our clients.
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine four ways that expressive arts assist with the healing process.
- Distinguish between the scope of practice of talk therapy vs expressive arts.
- Design a treatment plan to include expressive arts in either their personal work with clients or as a treatment team with adjunct professionals.
- Demonstrate how to incorporate Maslow’s hierarchy of needs into your assessment and therapy practice in a creative way.
Outline
Expressive Arts with Commercially, Sexually, Exploited Youth
- Video case study
- A visual experience of art to support healing for youth who have been commercially sexually exploited
- Understand the use of expressive arts vs being an expressive arts therapist
Why the Arts Work
- Discussion on how the creative process allows for a deeper level of knowledge and understanding of self
- Assess physiological needs and safety in a non-intrusive way
- Helps to avoid or heal attachment ruptures and support belonging and love
- Builds Confidence and Self Esteem
Take Away Activity
- Maslow’s Hierarchy (allows for psychoeducation, creativity)
- Profound, powerful tool to support needs instead of assuming need
- Resources shared
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Occupational Therapists
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychiatrists
- Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields
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05/06/2021
Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Attachment: Repairing the Internal Attachment
Join IFS expert, author, prominent clinician & psychiatrist Frank Anderson, MD, to learn how to help clients heal from the inside out.
Explore the application of the IFS Model of therapy and trauma and attachment theory to apply in your work with children, families and couples to effectively heal emotional wounds:
- Address the fears/concerns of protective parts
- Establish a trusting relationship with proactive and reactive parts
Don’t miss out on this must-see session to make IFS therapy one of your go-to treatment tools!
Note: This product is not affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify toward IFS Institute credits or IFS Institute certification.
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate the steps of working with clients' “protective parts” to improve treatment outcomes as proposed by the IFS model.
- Propose how to address the “protector” fears as they arise for the client during the therapy session.
- Apply the core concepts of IFS intervention to repair the internal disconnections created by trauma.
Outline
- Facilitate internal attachment work
- Learn to address the fears/concerns of protective parts
- Establish a trusting relationship with proactive and reactive parts
- Resolve internal conflicts
- Gain permission to proceed with healing
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychiatrists
- Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields
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05/07/2021
Emotional Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for Healing Attachment Wounds
Take your practice to a new level with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) created by Dr. Sue Johnson! Guided by attachment science and over three decades of research in EFT with couples, now learn to harness the power of emotion to move your individual clients to a place of safety.
Join Leanne Campbell as she shares Sue Johnson's clinical roadmap based on hundreds of studies – on human attachment, on emotion, and on the effectiveness of EFT/EFIT interventions...interventions of gripping emotional depth and effectiveness.
Learn a three-stage process –
- Stabilization leading to symptom reduction, more emotional balance
- Restructuring of models of self and other, the expansion and growth of a new sense of self
- Consolidation - integrating changes into a new vision for life and an ever-stronger sense of self and relationships
EFIT taps into the primary vulnerabilities and needs of all clients, linking the therapist to what is universal – the basic structure of how we experience life, while respecting and honoring each individual as unique and entitled to empathy and responsiveness.
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate the EFIT model as a secure base for effective therapy with individual clients.
- Implement evidence-based stages to increase closeness, safe attachment, and connection.
- Develop client interactions that expand the client’s sense of self and open engagement with others.
- Determine how working with emotion as a key change agent will help clients move toward secure attachment.
Outline
- Employ the basic structure of emotion, as well as how we change models of self and others
- Utilize the empirically validated EFIT “roadmap” to guide clients through their vulnerability and motivation to a clear picture of stability and growth
- Validate the client’s sense of competence and worth in every session
- Limitations, risks, and areas for further research
Target Audience
- Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
05/07/2021
Disorganized Attachment: Don't Lose Sight of the Child in the Midst of Chaotic Behavior
Kids with disorganized and chaotic attachment are the hardest kids you will work with – they are simultaneously seeking attachment and terrified of it at the same time. They act in “unlovable ways” because they truly find themselves “unlovable”. Not trusting others, they continuously strive to control others.
This prevents them from getting what they need most – healthy, safe, and secure attachments.
Join me, Dan Hughes, PhD, as I show you how to bridge the knowledge and understanding of maladaptive attachment-seeking behaviors due to a disorganized attachment pattern resulting from past trauma, abuse, and neglect.
You’ll learn how to:
- Identify the behaviors consistent with disorganized attachment patterns
- Engage children who resist engagements
- Begin to trust adults who would teach them a new narrative
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine why a secure attachment is a protective factor in mental health.
- Assess the three main features of intersubjectivity.
- Distinguish how you might use each feature of PACE in developing an engagement with a disengaged child.
- Construct a story that includes the child’s trauma while reducing the fear and shame associated with the trauma.
Outline
Disorganized Attachment in Children/Teens
- Compassion for the way kids behave (it’s the behavior, not the child)
Severe Attachment Ruptures Impact on Child Functioning
- Mistrust and Self-Reliance
- Dysregulation of affective, behavioral, and cognitive states
Restoring Sense of Self and Developing Ability for Connection and Repair
- Learning to Trust with Comfort and Joy
- Transforming stories from despair to hope
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Occupational Therapists
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychiatrists
- Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields
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05/07/2021
Relational Trauma and Compromised Attachment in Adulthood: From Victim to “Overcomer”
Unresolved relational trauma prevents attachment security and perpetuates a victim mindset and identity. To change from victim to “overcomer”, we must help clients: create self-enhancing narratives and core beliefs (cognitive rescripting), substitute survival coping mechanisms (e.g., emotional numbing) for beneficial coping skills (e.g., emotional processing), develop new neuronal networks in the Limbic brain, achieve mastery over trauma (desensitize fear and anxiety, approach rather than avoid frightening memories and emotions), and learn that others can be relied on for comfort and support (change attachment patterns).
Join Terry Levy, PhD, as he teaches you how to treat relational/attachment trauma by using the Life Script to assess attachment patterns and traumas, teaching couples Attachment Communication Training to facilitate secure attachment, and employing experiential interventions to achieve emotional, mental, relationship and neurobiological change in traumatized clients, moving them from victim to “overcomer”.
Program Information
Objectives
- Apply the Life Script to assess and treat attachment patterns.
- Assess Attachment Communication Training to help couples achieve trust and security.
- Appraise experiential interventions (first year attachment cycle, inner-child metaphor, psychodrama) to promote positive change.
- Develop new neuronal networks in the Limbic brain to desensitize fear and anxiety, approach rather than avoid frightening memories and emotions.
Outline
Life Script
- Assess and treat attachment-related trauma in adults and couples
Attachment Communication Training
- Mitigate destructive ways of relating, and foster trust, safety and security in relationships
Experiential Interventions
- First year attachment cycle – psychoeducation about early childhood attachment
- Inner-child metaphor – therapeutic method to address early life perception and emotion
- Psychodrama – utilizes role play
Target Audience
Mental Health Clinicians
Copyright :
05/07/2021
Boldly Showing Up - Attachment, Shame, and Vulnerability Through a Culturally-Safe Lens
The way in which you perceive yourself and the world around you are shaped through the intersectionality of your cultural lens – gender, sexuality, family, race, and ethnicity…
In family culture and environmental cultures, it’s often difficult for us to explore our authentic self…permission for individuation to happen. This can create unhealthy shame shields to protect against vulnerability and emotional safety, leaving healthy attachment at risk.
Carmen will teach us the impact of the intersectionality of historical narratives, shame, vulnerability, culture, and the effects of these on developing secure attachment. Moving clients out of shame-based models of engaging and helping them embrace vulnerability and leaning into relationships.
Program Information
Objectives
- Demonstrate how emotional literacy can increase communication and attachment within families.
- Analyze how shame, vulnerability and legacy burdens impacts family connections.
- Evaluate the impact of culture and the role of the therapist within the therapeutic setting.
- Analyze the value of looking beyond the presenting problem to explore the authentic self.
Outline
Looking Beyond Presenting Problem with a Culturally Safe Lens
- Increasing intersectionality in the therapy room
- Authentic self of the clinician within the therapeutic system
The Belief Structures of Shame and Vulnerability
- How shame shields are developed
- The effects of vulnerability and attachment
Intersectionality of Historical Family and Society Narratives
- The impact of family narratives on attachment
- How cultural beliefs and narratives affect attachment
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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05/07/2021
Impact of Generational and Racial Trauma on Attachment and Security
We live in a time of social, racial, and civil unrest across the globe where various communities of color have been and continue to be silenced, marginalized, and rendered invisible…
…and so many families struggle to put words to these circumstances for their loved ones and themselves.
This is a time when clinicians are sought out to organize, develop, and foster a language of safety and inclusion to manage the anxieties of the unknown. DBT was developed with many core approaches but founded on the principles of validation and mindfulness. These two critical ingredients engage clients in a space of felt safety and secure attachment that is necessary for learning, growth, and healing.
We are living in a critical watershed moment in global history where anxieties are high while simultaneously avenues of self-expression and identity are being explored and demanding a platform or “seat at the table.” Clinicians need to address these uncertainties in their clients as change often threatens our very sense of our selves. Secure attachment is the connection that optimizes long-term connection and understanding.
Every generation has decided how to act on racism either through alliance or aggression. From clinician to client, it critical to clarify your stance, understand the impact of trauma across all communities, and how to break the generational chains of trauma. Developing cultural competency…..
Program Information
Objectives
- Develop a therapeutic environmental plan to facilitate safety for marginalized clients during therapy sessions.
- Learn how to determine the appropriate intervention for a defensive response based upon the client’s arousal level.
- Improve connection with clients of color through using statements of alliance.
- Identify personal defenses and beliefs that interfere with authentic connection in the therapeutic space.
- Learn how to use the foundational DBT principles of validation and mindfulness to communicate and embody felt safety in your clients.
Outline
- Understanding racial trauma and generational trauma
- How trauma impacts healthy attachment and the developing mind
- Key trauma defense strategies within communities of color
- How to facilitate a felt sense of cultural, emotional and physical safety in your therapeutic space
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Community Leaders
- Family members of loved ones in marginalized communities receiving mental health treatment
Copyright :
04/20/2021
Attachment & Attuned Parenting: The Power of Showing Up | Self-Study
Program Information
Objectives
- Characterize the three types of non-secure attachment and describe how they manifest in parenting styles that limit parent/child connection.
- Categorize how caregiver presence and attuned parenting fosters resilience in children.
- Assess the four “S’s” of attachment and relate their significance to clinicians and educators.
Outline
Influences of caregiver state of mind on interactions with child
- Awareness
- Attunement
- Resonance
Attachment: the four S’s that foster children’s well-being and resilience
The practical tools of “The Power of Showing Up”
- Clinical methods from Dr. Siegel’s approach
- Educator-focused takeaways
Questions & Answer
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- School Psychologists
- Educators
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychotherapists
- Other professionals working with children and parents
Copyright :
01/14/2020
Polyvagal Theory for Children: Practical Application to Build Safety, Create Attachment & Develop Connection | Self-Study
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate the foundational principles and features of the Polyvagal Theory in order to elicit trust in the young clients you work with.
- Apply the features of the Polyvagal Theory to inform clinical treatment interventions for children.
- Analyze the Social Engagement System and how the brain-face-heart connection evolved.
- Analyze when a child’s Social Engagement System is compromised by stress and trauma and help to reset it.
- Construct how a therapy session can be planned and carried out to maximize client safety, social engagement and regulation.
Outline
Polyvagal Theory – Application for Children
- Foundational Principles and features
- Applying Polyvagal Theory in Clinical Practice
Harnessing your Social Engagement System
- How to Reset when Compromised by Stress and Trauma
- Elicit Trust - Voice, Rhythm, Racial Expressions, Touch
- Exercises that hone in on various vocal qualities
- Create and maintain an open facial expression with defensive children
- Strategies to incorporate safe touch
Playfulness and Paradox to Suspend Defensiveness
- Surprise the brain of a defensive child with novel responses to:
- Grab attention
- Down-regulate sympathetic activation
- Interrupt automatic defensiveness
- Generate curiosity
Movement and Breathing Exercises to Create Connection
- Ventral vagal activities for open and engaged state
- Promote attachment behavior
- Dorsal vagal activities to pendulate between arousal and relaxation
- Rhythmic activities for maintaining regulation
- Counteracting shut down, guarded or angry behavior (responses)
Target Audience
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- School Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
01/14/2021
Grieving and Remembering Well: Tools for Healing | Self-Study
Program Information
Objectives
- Assess the dynamics of different types of grief in clients and the healing processes associated with each.
- Determine the relationship between traumatic events and grief as it relates to the healing process within clients.
Outline
- Background
- The Death Shapes Grief
- River of Grief
- Witnessing Grief
- Pure Grief vs. External Triggers
- Grief vs. Trauma
- Positive Psychology
- Survivor’s Guilt
- Grief Needs
- Grief in Therapy
- Worst and Best Things to Say
- Pitfalls of Getting Over Loss
- Healing
- Complicated Grief
- Goals of Grief Work
Target Audience
Psychologists, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Behavioral Health Professionals
Copyright :
03/23/2018
Attachment-Focused EMDR to Heal a Relationship Trauma | Self-Study
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Psychologists, Social Workers
Objectives
- Debate the importance of the therapeutic relationship and therapist flexibility in adapting to the client’s needs.
- Develop resources for overcoming roadblocks in the therapeutic session.
- Implement the modified protocol in therapeutic sessions with clients affected by a relationship trauma.
Outline
- Introduction of Laurel Parnell and EMDR
- Introduction of session
- Exploring the Presenting Problem
- History
- Establishing the Bilateral Stimulation
- Installments
- Peaceful Place
- Nurturing Figures
- Protector Figures
- Wise Figure
- Checking the EMDR Target from Past Session
- Picture
- Attempting to Bridge to Find an Early Incident
- Modified Protocol
- Checking the Target
- Checking the SUDS
- Socratic Interweaves
- Checking the SUDS
- Checking for a Positive Cognition (PC)
- Body Scan
- Checking the Recent Trigger
- Processing the Trigger
- Imagining a Future Scenario
- Closure
- Session Summary
Copyright :
01/01/2015
The Biology of Loss: How to Foster Resilience When Attachments Are Impaired
Bestselling author Gabor Maté has become a leading voice for the destigmatization and compassionate treatment of mental health and addiction. He’s the author of four bestselling books, including When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, and the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction.
He’ll discuss how trauma and emotional stress, often hidden below consciousness and interwoven into the very fabric of society, prepare the ground for disease. He'll also explore how to unlock our natural abilities for recovery and healing, particularly at a moment when therapists are struggling in unprecedented ways.
Maté will also cover the core elements of healthy human development and what happens when critical attachments are lost or severed. He will discuss what it really means for humans to be resilient in the face of attachment injuries. What emerges is a new paradigm for relating, grounded in the present moment while not flinching from the past.
Program Information
Objectives
- Measure the impacts of childhood trauma on psychological functioning and well-being in adulthood.
- Differentiate how to uncover early traumatic events of childhood and unconscious feeling states.
- Devise how to cultivate deeper therapeutic presence by bringing awareness to unconscious patterns and processes that may be exacerbating client symptoms.
- Demonstrate how to keep clients engaged in present-moment experiences using a mind-body framework.
- Evaluate recent developments in attachment research and trauma.
- Extrapolate how early loss can translate into maladaptive behaviors in adulthood.
- Propose 3 examples of skills for building resilience in the face of loss.
Outline
- Defining the impacts of trauma and hidden emotional stressors
- Understand the role of stress in the development of disease
- Review the stress reaction from the perspective of systems theory
- Understanding the nature of resilience as adaptation
- The ways in which we can overcome stress and foster resilience
- The social context of stress and problematic behaviors
- Moving past reaction to understanding origins as adaptations
- The attachment drive as a biological necessity
- A paradigm for developing resilience in the face of attachment loss
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Case Managers
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
03/19/2021