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Digital Seminar

Introduction to ARC: The Attachment, Regulation, and Competency Model


Speaker:
Margaret Blaustein, PhD
Duration:
3 Hours 02 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Oct 04, 2018
Product Code:
POS052553
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

Module from the Traumatic Stress Studies Course

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Speaker

Margaret Blaustein, PhD's Profile

Margaret Blaustein, PhD Related seminars and products


Margaret E. Blaustein, PhD, is a practicing clinical psychologist whose career has focused on the understanding and treatment of complex childhood trauma and its sequelae. Dr. Blaustein is co-developer of the Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC) treatment framework (Kinniburgh & Blaustein, 2005), and co-author of the text, Treating Complex Trauma in Children and Adolescents: Fostering Resilience through Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency(Blaustein & Kinniburgh, 2010). 
 

Dr. Blaustein’s work has been hailed as “a landmark for understanding and treating traumatized children” by world renowned trauma expert Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, and has been embraced by over 300 agencies and/or child-serving systems in the U.S. and abroad who use the ARC framework. 

She has provided extensive training and consultation to providers worldwide. Dr. Blaustein is the director of the Center for Trauma Training in Needham, MA, and is actively involved in local, regional, and national collaborative groups dedicated to the empathic, respectful, and effective provision of services to this population.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Margaret Blaustein is the founder and director of the Center for Trauma Training, Inc and receives compensation as a consultant. She receives royalties as a published author. Margaret Blaustein receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Margaret Blaustein is a member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and the American Psychological Association. She is an ad hoc reviewer for several peer review journals, for a complete list contact PESI, Inc.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Objectives

  1. Analyze the role of routines in the caregiving system to enhance a child’s felt safety and stability, and specify why this is important in treatment.
  2. Characterize how the core attachment targets of ARC apply to the participant and/or providers within the participant’s system.
  3. Determine how caregiver ability to identify their own responses to trauma reactions is critical to the recovery process in children who have experienced trauma.

Outline

Applicability of ARC Interventions Across Life Span

Case Example James, 13-Year-Old Seventh Grade Student, Diagnosed with ADHD and ODD

  • Tends to quiet, isolated style, argumentative in class, anxious, can be explosive when provoked
  • Challenged by academic performance, bright with concomitant learning disability
  • Family history of exposure to violence, disrupted attachments, physical abuse in the home

Complex Experience of Trauma – Layers of Adversity

Understanding Childhood Trauma – Overwhelming Experience, Sense of Loss of Control and Vulnerability

  • Multiple layers lead to complex outcomes

ARC Framework of Intervention - Implementation Challenges

  • Applying interventions across varied service provision systems – trauma informed practice

Intervention Approach – Dual Caregiver/Child Focus, Three Core Strategies

  • Factors that affect engagement in trauma treatment
  • Strategies to support child, caregiver, and provider engagement
  • Skill development targets – building in layers

Trauma Experience Integration (TEI) – Capacity for Distress Tolerance and Active Engagement in Experience

  • Impact of trauma experience on development
  • TEI is embedded in the child’s larger world – ability to curiously observe others

The Observe-Modulate-Do Cycle

Addressing Safety, Reflective Capacity and Present Engagement

  • Building safety, internal and external

Attributes of Provider Attunement – Continued Case Example

  • Observing client states – continuation of case example of James when overwhelmed
    • State 1:  Survival
    • State 2:  Adequate internal/external resources, developing reflection
    • State 3:  Ability to take action
  • Effectively sequencing the progression of trauma treatment

Formulation-Driven Treatment – Making Sense of Client Behavior and Context

  • Integrating information to structure treatment choices – key questions

Case Application Exercise – History and Formulation

Attributes of Safe Attachment Relationships

The Trauma Impacted System – Disruptions in Curiosity, Modulation and Safety

  • Foundation of the regulated, reflective self
  • Video case example – interaction drivers

Parallel Processing in Caregiver-Child Interaction

  • Cycle of cognition-emotion-coping behavior

Attachment Goals – Building an Influential Caregiving Syste

  • Caregiver affect management, attunement, effectively responding to behaviors
  • Factors that interfere with treatment engagement

Basic Requirements for Trauma-Focused Intervention

  • Initial engagement principles – caregiver and child
  • Continued case example – application of principles

Ongoing Engagement Issues – Skills, Stake, Goals, Potential Barriers

  • Case application – engagement
  • Empathic engagement with caregivers

Caregiver and Therapist Affect Management

  • Improving ability to self-regulate affect
  • Skill toolbox – dealing with routine and unexpected stressors
  • Case example and application

Attunement - Observation and Language

  • Approaching youth behaviors from a foundation of curiosity

Effective Responding to Youth Behaviors – Observe, Co-Modulate, Act

  • Fluid phasic application of skills to meet child needs
    • Connection, control, containment, regulation

Therapist Resources

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Therapists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Case Managers
  • Nurses
  • Other Helping Professionals

Reviews

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Overall:      5

Total Reviews: 6

Comments

Marsha J

"excellent presentation. Presented in a clear and comprehensive way. Dr. Blaustein is an excellent instructor. I particularly appreciated the various approaches to teaching that captured a lot of learning styles including my own."

Sally M

"Incredibly wonderful presenter, thorough and informative information..truly an inspiration "

Brooke L

"This was very well done great presentation and I learned a lot, I work primarily with youth in a Native American community and school so I took a lot in. Thank you"

Jena V

"excellent information"

Susan L

"Excellent presentation. Thank you. "

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