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Attachment-Focused Therapy: Clinical Strategies for Working with Children/Adolescents & Their Families


Speaker:
Gary Gilles, MA, LCPC
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
PLW38970
Brochure Code:
PLW38970
Media Type:
Live Webcast

Dates


Description

  • Over 2/3 of the day spent on clinical strategies!
  • Improve your skills in diagnosing and treating attachment-related conditions
  • Work more effectively with parents, adolescents, children and the family system

This workshop will take you beyond attachment theory and show you how to apply attachment principles in your work with children, adolescents and their families to improve treatment outcomes. You will learn strategies that help treat critical behavioral problems stemming from poor attachment in various populations:

  • Parents – misplaced discipline, marital discord, substance use, overwhelmed by parenting deficiencies, depression, anxiety
  • Adolescents – unhealthy peer attachment, problems with authority, conduct disorders, substance use, depression, suicidal ideation
  • Children – tantrums, aggression, bullying, poor social development, precociousness
  • Families – confused boundaries, emotionally distant relationships, absence of relational repair, dysfunctional communication

Join attachment specialist, author and national speaker Gary Gilles, MA, LCPC, as he provides you with in-depth practical strategies that you can use effectively in any clinical setting to help clients recover from early life wounds, build new attachments or repair ruptured relationships.

Gary will cover the key attachment principles and walk you through the most common disruptions to healthy attachment, then spend the majority of the seminar exploring nine vital, yet practical, attachment strategies that will equip you to work more effectively with parents, adolescents, children and the family system. You will leave this workshop with attachment-related treatment strategies that can be immediately applied in your clinical practice.

OUTLINE

Why Attachment Matters & Disruptions to Healthy Attachment

  • Core emotional needs of developing children
  • The four attachment styles
  • How stress and trauma disrupt the attachment process
  • The link between adverse childhood experiences and adult dysfunction
  • Common attachment disorders that result from abuse, neglect and trauma
  • Dysfunctional communication
  • Clinical applications for children, adolescents, parents and families

9 Clinical Strategies to Enhance Attachment in Parent-Child Relations

Strategy 1: Parental Self-Reflection for Connection and Repair

  • Reflective dialogue
  • Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)
  • Address early life trauma
  • Break trans-generational cycle of poor attachment
  • Reorganize insecure attachment patterns

Strategy 2: Develop Parental Attunement to Children

  • Facial mirroring and attunement to infant’s non-verbal signals
  • Interpret non-verbal behavior
  • Respond to and model emotional expression
  • Organize emotional experiences
  • Co-regulating a child’s emotion
  • An internal working model of relationship

Strategy 3: Organize a Child’s Emotion

  • Emotional regulation
  • Help parents co-regulate child’s emotions
  • Co-regulating with dismissive and preoccupied parents

Strategy 4: Advancing Affective and Reflective Skills in Children

  • Fostering empathy
  • Promote autonomy and competence
  • Managing fears
  • Increase resilience to stress
  • Self-regulation of emotion

Strategy 5: Regulating Parental Cognitive/Affective Response

  • Reflective functioning to access internal states
  • Address early life trauma
  • Break trans-generational cycle of poor attachment
  • Co-create a coherent life narrative

Strategy 6: Relational Repair between Parent and Child

  • Parent’s coherent sense of self
  • Teach/model reflective functioning with children
  • Attuned, reciprocal communication
  • Co-regulation child’s emotion to facilitate to self-regulation

Strategy 7: Co-regulation with Adolescents

  • Healthy autonomy while being dependent
  • Reflective dialogue to organize affect
  • Validate emotion and subjective experience
  • Navigate conflict and crisis

Strategy 8: Build Responsive Parents

  • Supporting parents at their starting point
  • Connect with the dismissive parent
  • Calm the preoccupied parent
  • Make sense of the unresolved parent

Strategy 9: Attachment Principles in Family Therapy

  • Effective use of reflective dialogue
  • Relationship repair
  • New relational boundaries
  • Co-create a new family narrative

OBJECTIVES

  1. Discuss the foundational concepts and essential research pertaining to attachment theory.
  2. Describe how stress, trauma and adverse experiences affect child development.
  3. Explain generational transmission of attachment style.
  4. Demonstrate accurate attunement to verbal and non-verbal communication in children/adolescents.
  5. Examine the pivotal role emotion has in forming attached relationships.
  6. Demonstrate affective and reflective skill development in children.
  7. Discuss rapport building approaches with various parental responses to therapeutic engagement.
  8. Apply attachment principles in family therapy setting.

Satisfaction Guarantee
Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI, Inc., PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call 1-800-844-8260.

ADA Needs

PESI would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at 800-844-8260.

Credit


* Credit Note - *

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information: Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this live interactive webcast. This webcast is a broadcast of a live event. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether web based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

CE Information is based on 100% attendance.

 


Counselors - Counselors

This educational offering consists of 6.25 clock hour(s) of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this offering and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements. 


Counselors - Texas Counselors

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors. Provider #: 2477. This course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.


Social Workers - Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 6.25 (Clinical) continuing education credits. Course level: Intermediate. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation.


Social Workers - Canadian Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 6.25 (Clinical) continuing education credits for completing this intermediate level course. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance. Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.


Social Workers - Florida Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number #50-399. This course qualifies for 6.25 continuing education credits.


Social Workers - Illinois Social Workers

PESI, Inc is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. License #: 159-000154. Full attendance at this course qualifies for 6.0 contact hours.


Social Workers - Minnesota Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Minnesota, Board of Social Work. Provider #: CEP-140. This course has been approved for 6.0 continuing education hours. This certificate has been issued upon successful completion of a post-test.


Psychologists - Canadian Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 6.0 continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement


Psychologists - Florida Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Psychology. Provider Number #50-399. This course qualifies for 6.3 continuing education credits.


Marriage & Family Therapists - Marriage & Family Therapists

This activity consists of 380 minutes of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the activity advertisement, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements. 


Marriage & Family Therapists - Texas Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists. Provider # 503. This course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.


Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. Provider #:168-000156. Full attendance at this activity qualifies for 6.0 credits. 


Addiction Counselors - NAADAC

NAADAC

This course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 7.5 CE in the skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance. 


Connecticut Addiction Counselors

Provider #120924. This course has been approved as a CCB approved training and has been awarded 6.25 hours by the Connecticut Certification Board.


California Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (CCAPP-EI)

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the CCAPP-EI, Provider #: 0S-03-036-1023. This activity meets the qualifications for 6.0 CEHs (continuing education hours).


Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists

PESI, Inc. is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Nurses in full attendance will earn 6.25 contact hours.


California Nurses

PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 17118 for 6.0 contact hours. Full attendance is required. No partial contact hours will be issued for partial attendance. 


Florida Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider # FBN2858. This course qualifies for 6.0 contact hours. 

CE Broker


Iowa Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Full attendance at this activity qualifies for 7.6 contact hours. Full attendance in the activity is required; no partial contact hours will be issued for partial attendance. These contact hours are used for your license renewal. Please email cepesi@pesi.com with your license number, include the webcast title, speaker name and date. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid for the webcast.


New Jersey Social Workers

This course is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards – ASWB NJ CE Course Approval Program Provider #10 Course #464 from 08/04/2015 to . Social Workers will receive the following type and number of credit(s): Clinical Practice 6.25Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance. 

ASWB NJ Continuing Education Course Approval Program for the New Jersey Board of Social Work Examiners.


Ohio Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Provider approval #:RCST071001. Full attendance at this course meets the qualifications for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education credit.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #: 2087. Successful completion of this course meets the qualifications for 6.0 hours of continuing education credit as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

** You will need to provide your license number to PESI. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.


Other Professions

This activity qualifies for 6.25 continuing education minutes as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements. 



Handouts/Brochure

Speaker

Gary Gilles, MA, LCPC Related seminars and products


Gary Gilles, MA, LCPC, is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in private practice in Illinois. He is a co-founder of Grove Center for Counseling in northwest Chicagoland and specializes in attachment-related disorders. He has over 25 years of experience working with parents, adolescents and children. He is the author of three books, including, How to be an Emotionally Intelligent Parent. He is a national speaker who teaches seminars and conducts trainings on attachment-related topics to both mental health professionals and parent groups.

He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration, Oakton Community College’s Alliance for Lifelong Learning, Trinity International University and Argosy University. He has published over 200 articles on a wide range of mental health topics and has developed over 30 online courses for various academic institutions and businesses.


Speaker Disclosures: 

Financial: Gary Gilles is in private practice. He is an Adjunct Faculty for Argosy University and Trinity International University and a Health Writer/Editor/Researcher for many organizations. Mr. Gilles receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Gary Gilles has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
 


Additional Info

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review. 


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion.


Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, and other Mental Health Professionals

Reviews

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Overall:      4.8

Total Reviews: 4

Comments

Marcia B

"Excellent learning opportunity with strategies that are easy to use."

Faye L

"I really enjoyed the presentation and feel that it will help me in working in my practice with children, teens and families."

Ashlie P

"I learned about attachment theory in college, but didn't realize the impact attachment has on ones entire life. I learned so much about how to work with different types of people and several useable strategies to deal with them."

Tanya R

"I feel much more confident about understanding attachment disorder now then prior to this training. Extremely informative."

Satisfaction Guarantee
Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to: PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call 1-800-844-8260.

ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at 1-800-844-8260.

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