Stepping Stone Family Services Incorporated

Events

Attachment Theories and Interventions Training

Training Dates:

TBD

Training Costs - $125.00

Attachment Theory and Interventions is a CEU accredited training course that provides insightful clinical application of trauma and attachment concepts. Heather Boynton, LCSW, provides an introduction to attachment theory, trauma symptoms, and effects of trauma experiences on the brain.

The course will conclude with a discussion of managing the behaviors/coping mechanisms that the client uses to cause relational/social issues for themselves. The participants will learn interventions to implement as well as teaching the caregivers to implement these interventions so the families can assist these children with soothing and techniques to help these children to feel safe and secure in their environments.

Training Outline

I. Introduction and Overview of Course

II. Types and Symptoms of Trauma

Two models for understanding trauma
Experiential Exercise
Neurobiological Alterations and Trauma

III. Attachment Theory

Defining attachment types
Meaning of Behavior Exercise
Symptoms of attachment
Manifestations of attachment issues

IV. Limbic System

Parts and functions of the limbic system
Relationship between amygdala and hippocampus
Behaviors exhibited by children with attachment issues
Group Exercise:Meaning of Behavior
exercise completed again applying new
concepts to interrupting client behaviors.

V. Circle of Security and Circle of Trust

Review the Circle of Security and Circle of Trust handouts
Experiential Group exercise reflecting on the participants history and applying their clients to this process

VI. Interventions for Attachment and Trauma Population

Explanation of Interventions
Behavioral interventions : what to avoid
Group exercise: Role play interventions
Time In and acknowledgement skills
Feelings recognized, labeled, validated, and problem solving
Group Exercise: Role Play interventions
Natural & Logical consequences, not Punishments
Group Exercise

ADA ACCOMMODATIONS: If you require ADA accommodations, please contact Heather Boynton, Continuing Education Director for Stepping Stone Family Services, Inc. at 757-673-8117 ext. 308 at least 2 weeks prior to workshop date so that arrangements can be made.