Attachment and Connection
In this one day learning experience, participants are presented with the latest research on early infant development, parent-child attachment, and how positive caregiving promotes emotional regulation, socialization skills, and later adolescent/adult development. Additional content will cover attachment-related mental health disorders, and current best practices for enhancing parent-child relationships and promoting positive infant and child development. This training is a must for those who work in child care, schools, child protection, and family services.
Participant Outcomes
- Understand the unique developmental, regulatory, and cognitive processes involved in child development between the ages of 0-3.
- Identify how to provide quality attachment parenting/caregiving.
- Learn the effects of caregiver mental health and child development.
- Identify the effects of long-term, chronic neglect on mental health, and its connection with attachment disorders, such as reactive attachment disorder and disinhibited social engagement disorder.
- Review current best practices for fostering high-quality infant attachment and parent-child interactions.
Approach
Attachment and Connections™ is an immersive training that blends presentations on cutting-edge research and participatory experience. Attendees will complete this course feeling competent to begin using these skills to help others reach their goals.
Who
When
Where
Who
Attachment and Connections™ is designed for everyone.
When
Training occurs over one day.
Schedule 9:00am – 4:30pm (with one hour for lunch). Daily schedule times can be adapted if necessary.
Where
In-Person: Your organization can schedule private booking and is responsible for providing a location conducive to adult learning.
Online: This training can be held entirely online via video conference.
At the completion of the training, each participant will receive an Attachment and Connections™ certificate from the Gulf Coast Trauma Institute and up to 6 CEs (if available).
