Understanding the Value of Healthy Childhood Attachments    

It is vital for caregivers of youth in foster care to understand how their clients’ experiences affect the youths’ ability to attach as well as the behavior resulting from poor attachment. Discuss how to appropriately respond to the insecurely attached child and how to recognize how the child’s behavior may trigger the caregiver’s own emotional issues. Examine the concept of the development of healthy or “secure” attachment vs. “insecure” attachment and how they present in children behaviorally. Examine strategies to develop healthy attachment and discuss transference issues.

2 Group Home Adminstrator CEUs available.

Instructors:
Lea Arellano, Kevin Conboy, Alfred Gales, Paul Gibson, Sandra Madison, Diana Middleton, Anquenette Robinson, Natalie Thoreson, Gary Zomalt