Certificate in attachment-focused adult psychotherapy: Advanced course - Live webinar series

Certificate in attachment-focused adult psychotherapy: Advanced course

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

Live webinar series: January 13, 14, February 10 and 11, 2022 | 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Facilitator: Annette Kussin, MSW, RSW

Understanding clients from the perspective of adult attachment offers a new and hopeful lens to therapists working with clients with relationship problems and with individual insecurities.

Adult attachments develop as a continuum of child attachment and are deeply formed by adulthood. However, they can be changed through a therapeutic relationship so that adults can feel more secure and create mutually satisfying relationships.
This certificate program will provide an advanced level of assessing the adult attachment categories and treating adults from an attachment-focused model of psychotherapy.

Learning objectives:

• Assess the adult attachment category of their clients by understanding the behavior of each category and by offering a formal adult attachment assessment.
• Gain an attachment-focused therapeutic model that offers both general stages for change and specific strategies for each attachment category. This model will be explored in depth, using case examples from each category of Attachment.
• Develop an understanding of the neurology of adult attachment. They will be able to apply an attachment paradigm to a number of known problems and diagnosis in the mental health field, such as borderline personality disorder.
• The relationship between the therapist and client is the central vehicle for change.  Therefore, participants will be encouraged to be aware of their own attachment category and how this influences their therapeutic relationships.
• Participants will complete this course with a deeper understanding of secure and insecure adult attachment and how to use this understanding to assist their clients to redevelop secure adult attachment or earned security.