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**ATTACHMENT THEORY FOR PRACTICE**
TRAUMA & ATTACHMENT, SEPARATION & LOSS
TRAINING COURSE
Please read our
Attachment Theory for Practice user information
before booking this course.
This course is two days + a further extended one day
Attachment interventions
is available on a commissioned basis only.
Note for Osiris College customers:
This two day course is available as a buy a place course. It is primarily intended for people working in Children's social care or related
areas. However, it is
accessible for unqualified workers but be warned, parts of it are "tough" and
you will certainly have to be in direct work with adults or children (or have
been) to be able to work through this course. Hence, if you are unsure about
whether this course is suitable for you please contact us to discuss.
Our experience in training this course in
various locations in the U.K. shows that social care staff (including qualified
workers) often (usually contrary to their initial opinion) don't
understand Attachment Theory as deeply as perhaps they should. However, this course is invariably very
well received and positively evaluated even where participants have good
knowledge of Attachment theory.
Attachment Theory is
strongly promoted by Government as an effective theoretical base for social care
practice. It has “become of age” with significant new research from many sources
both supporting (in many ways) Bowlby’s original formulation and greatly
extending the scope of the theory well beyond its power as an assessment tool
into intervention methodology. This course looks at the fundamentals of the
theory, research findings and intervention strategies based on understanding the
processes and effects of insecure attachment. The course distinguishes between
“level 1” interventions around the “therapeutic environment” (where ALL staff
having contact with a child are involved) and “level 2” interventions completed
by specialist staff. The course also includes a significant
Framework dimensionally-based Assessing
Attachment Schedule developed by Osiris out of the work by Vera Fahlberg, David
Howe, Peter Fonagy and others. This is used by participants to assess attachment
issues in children on their caseloads and parenting capacity. The course
includes material on the significant implications of Attachment Theory for
practice.
Learning Objectives:
v
The basics of
Attachment Theory, including attachment styles.
v
Research findings on Attachment
and Brain development research
v
Child Maltreatment and Trauma
v
Insecure Attachment and its causation
v
Separation & Loss (the two types of
loss)
v
Undoing insecure / disorganised attachment – strategies for intervention.
This
course may be usefully linked to the Osiris Analysis
& Assessment course, Family Contact and Direct
Work courses.
Course
Key Texts:
Selected
Supplementary Reading:
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John
Bowlby: The Attachment Trilogy: Vol 1 Attachment, Vol 2 Separation, Vol 3 Loss
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Mario
Marrone (1998) Attachment and Interaction
- Jeremy Holmes (1993) John Bowlby and
Attachment Theory
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Jon Allen
(2001) Traumatic Relationships and Serious Mental Disorders
- Peter Fonagy (2001) Attachment Theory and
Psychoanalysis
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Jude Cassidy and
Phillip Shaver (1999) Handbook of Attachment Theory
Order your Attachment
Books from our Bibliography page.
Click here to go to Osiris College main page.
Osiris College
customers - book this course now: Booking Page.
 
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