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Neurobiology of Attachment: The Power of "We"
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- 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.
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06/05/2021
Attachment Begins in Utero: There’s No Such Thing as a Blank Slate
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- 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.
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06/05/2021
Attachment Ruptures and Repair in Children & Adolescents
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- 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.
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06/05/2021
Creating Secure Attachment in Teens: Balancing Interdependence & Autonomy
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- 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.
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06/05/2021
Expressive Arts to Build Safety and Connection with Your Most Vulnerable Clients
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- 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.
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06/05/2021
Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Attachment: Repairing the Internal Attachment
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- 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.
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07/05/2021
Emotional Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for Healing Attachment Wounds
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- 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.
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07/05/2021
Disorganized Attachment: Don't Lose Sight of the Child in the Midst of Chaotic Behavior
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- 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.
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07/05/2021
Relational Trauma and Compromised Attachment in Adulthood: From Victim to “Overcomer”
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- 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.
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07/05/2021
Boldly Showing Up - Attachment, Shame, and Vulnerability Through a Culturally-Safe Lens
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- 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.
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07/05/2021
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 colour 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 ourselves. 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…..
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- 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 colour through using statements of alliance.
- Identify personal defences 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.
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20/04/2021
Attachment & Attuned Parenting: The Power of Showing Up
Daniel J. Siegel, MD, author of New York Times bestseller Aware and of The Power of Showing Up (January 2020), created this new two-hour presentation for clinicians and educators working with parents and children struggling with connection. Based on the science of attachment and his thirty years of clinical practice with children and parents, Dr. Siegel will explain the science of attachment, the latest research and guide you in developing your own individualized approaches…optimizing the development of the child’s mind.
You will learn how to help parents work on their own growth – cultivating a coherent understanding of their own past to encourage their child’s own capacity for resilience and to be fully present for life.
Take away the following from this recording:
- The latest research on the science of attachment – and how it applies to parenting today
- How to help parents reflect on their own experiences and grow within their parenting role
- Why awareness, attunement, and resonance are crucial to the parenting process
- The “Four S” approach to fostering well-being and resilience in children
- How to develop your own individualized approaches for families you see
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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.
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14/01/2020
Polyvagal Theory for Children: Practical Application to Build Safety, Create Attachment & Develop Connection
Do you know therapists who seem to have “the magic touch” when it comes to getting children to trust and connect with them?
What if there are actual behaviours that you can learn and incorporate into your way of being with children that can solicit openness, relaxation and trust?
Watch Dafna Lender, LCSW, for this compelling 3-hour workshop, as she walks you through the complexities of using polyvagal theory with your young clients. Using your own social engagement system and tuning into the child’s physiological state you’ll learn:
- Regulating and calming techniques for more curiosity, openness & connection
- How sending safety messages to brains of mistrusting kids will make them more open to new relational experiences
- To use voice, rhythm, facial expressions and touch to elicit trust
- To surprise the brain of a defensive child with novel responses to grab attention, interrupt their automatic defensiveness, and generate curiosity
- Exercises and activities to make shut down, guarded or angry clients feel more relaxed, open and ready to connect
If you’re working with kids – you don’t want to miss this opportunity. Purchase today!
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- 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.
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14/01/2021
Grieving and Remembering Well: Tools for Healing
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- 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.
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23/03/2018
Attachment-Focused EMDR to Heal a Relationship Trauma
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- 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.
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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.
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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 behaviours in adulthood.
- Propose 3 examples of skills for building resilience in the face of loss.
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19/03/2021