Live Webinar Series for Certificate in Attachment Focused Adult Psychotherapy: Advanced course

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Great News! This four-day training is now available as a live webinar series! Stay connected, stay engaged and improve your skills with the Certificate in Attachment Focused Adult Psychotherapy: Advanced four-day course

April 23, 24, May 21 and 22, 2020
Facilitator: Annette Kussin, MSW., RSW.

This training is suitable for: Experienced therapists who have knowledge about child attachment and experience

All therapists will find it extremely useful to understand their clients from the perspective of adult attachment. This perspective offers a non-judgmental and hopeful means for both the therapist and clients to understand problems in self-perception and problems in relationships. Although adult attachments develop as a continuum of child attachment and are deeply formed by adulthood, they can be changed so that adults can feel more secure and create mutually satisfying relationships.

This certificate course will provide an advanced level of assessing and treating adults from an attachment focused model of psychotherapy and will help participants assess the adult attachment category of their clients by understanding the behavior of each category and by offering a formal adult attachment assessment. Participants will be offered 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. Participants will develop an understanding of the neurology of adult attachment and they will be able to apply an attachment paradigm to a number of known problems and diagnosis in the mental health field. 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.

 Day 1 | April 23: Attachment as a lifelong model for relationships? 

• Understanding child attachments.
• The unconscious internal working model.
• Attachment & affect regulation.
• Adolescent attachments.
• Adult attachments.
• Determining your own adult attachment.
• Brain development.
• Understanding adult mental health from an attachment perspective.

Day 2 | April 24: Assessing for Adult Attachments 

• Understanding the behavior of each classification.
• Assessing from clinical presentation.
• Questionnaires for adult attachment: accessing conscious self-reflections.
• Adult attachment interview:
  • research tool (main and assoc.).
  • accessing unconscious reflections.
  • clinical application.
  • modifying the AAI.
  • modified scoring: an impression of adult attachment.

Day 3 | May 21: Treatment Model of Attachment Focused Adult Therapy

• Goal of attachment focused therapy.
• Model of attachment focused psychotherapy.
  • creating a secure base in therapy: secure.
  • reflecting to the client his or her the attachment category and the meaning in relationships.
  • exploring memories of early attachment.
  • connecting current relationships from the awareness of attachment.
  • mourning losses: early losses of attachment figures and mourning the longing for what one never had.
  • loss of self as one changes.

Day 4 | May 22: Treatment Model of Attachment Focused Adult Therapy continued

• The relationship with the therapist: the intersubjective experience.
  • rupture and repair
  • matching affect
• Risking change in everyday life.

Each phase will be explored in depth with case examples, DVD's and role playing.

• The therapeutic challenges for each classification.
• The role of the therapist and importance of the therapist's adult attachment.

Pre-requisite: Becoming an Adult Attachment Focused Therapist workshop, or other adult attachment workshops.

Registration fees: General: $1,100 | Student: $990 | Group: 10% discount (5 or more)

Find more information and registration details at: www.cvent.com/d/fhqqvx