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Digital Seminar

Integrative Attachment Family Therapy: Interventions for Improving Parent-Child Connection and Attunement

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Faculty:
Dafna Lender, LCSW
Duration:
3 Hours 01 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Jun 16, 2020
Product Code:
POS056830
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: DVD
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Description

When attachment trauma permeates a family, children are left feeling hurt, angry, and disconnected from their caregivers – and caregivers, in turn, become discouraged when their child-rearing approaches aren’t working to address problematic behavior.
 
Unless and until the core issues are addressed, this cycle will continue!
 
Watch Dafna Lender, LCSW, internationally recognized attachment-based trauma expert, for this 3-hour recording overflowing with compelling insight and concrete strategies you can use right away to help traumatized families connect and repair. 
 
Through the lens of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and Theraplay®, you’ll discover how to:
  • Uncover the core issues that underlie problematic behavior or relationships
  • Gently intervene when a parent is misattuned or critical
  • Engage caregivers in the crucial reparative work that leads to improved connection, regulation, and joy
  • And more!
Don’t miss this opportunity to renew your sense of confidence and skill in your work with kids and families!

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File type File name Number of pages
PDF Manual - Integrative Attachment Family Therapy (2.5 MB) 30 Pages Available after Purchase

Faculty

Dafna Lender, LCSW's Profile

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The Theraplay Institute

Dafna Lender, LCSW, is an international trainer and supervisor for practitioners who work with children and families. She is a certified trainer and supervisor/consultant in both Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and an EMDR therapist. Dafna’s expertise is drawn from 25 years of working with families with attachment in many settings: at-risk after school programs, therapeutic foster care, in-home crisis stabilization, residential care and private practice. Dafna’s style, whether as a therapist or teacher, is combining the light-hearted with the profound by bringing a playful, intense and passionate presence to every encounter. Dafna is the author of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy (2023) and co-author of Theraplay® - The Practitioner’s Guide (2020).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dafna Lender maintains a private practice. She is a published author and receives royalties. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dafna Lender is an author for Psychotherapy Networker.

Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

 

For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepesi@pesi.com.


Outline

Attachment-Based Treatment:  Principles and Goals

  • Attachment Theory – and what it means for trauma-informed treatment
  • Elements of the social engagement system
  • Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
  • Theraplay: Structure, Engagement, Nurture & Challenge

Getting Started:  Assessment and Engagement

  • Discern underlying motives/feelings underneath a child’s behaviors
  • Facilitating a safe, active dialogue between parent and child
  • How to engage caregivers who are traumatized, too reduce defensiveness and increase empathy

Clinical Interventions to Create Connection, Regulation, and Attunement

  • PACE - Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy
  • In-SENC based on individual child’s needs (Structure, Engagement, Nurture, Challenge)
  • How to gently redirect mis-attuned or critical caregivers
  • Facilitating face-to-face interactions between parent and child
  • Increase warm facial expressions, synchronized movement and rhythm
  • Calm a dysregulated child and engage a withdrawn child
  • Activities to increase warm facial expressions and synchronized, rhythmic movement      

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Speech Language Pathologists
  • Therapists
  • Case Managers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

  1. Determine the principles of Attachment Theory.
  2. Demonstrate the PACE model to engage caregivers in effectively responding to their child(ren).
  3. Determine the elements of the social engagement system as it pertains to the parent child relationship.

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