Creating Secure Attachment in Teens: Balancing Interdependence & Autonomy
- Speaker:
- Christina Reese, PhD, LCPC
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 30 Minutes
- Language:
- Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
May 06, 2021
- Product Code:
- POS058075
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Attachment in the teen years can be challenging to navigate. As a child transitions to adolescence, their primary attachment with caregivers now shifts to peers.
They reach for autonomy and freedom, some of which they are not ready for.
Parents must balance giving just enough but not too much freedom, modeling interdependence and relationship health…setting the child up for success instead of hard life lessons. If there’s been an attachment trauma, or other trauma, this will impact the parent-child relationship in ways that can exacerbate mental health challenges. The transition of the teenage years can then become complicated.
You’ll learn to:
- Discover ways that parents can encourage appropriate autonomy seeking
- Heal attachment trauma if it is present
- Help children to understand the shift in attachment taking place during the teen years
- Explain interdependence versus independence
- Implement interventions to use with teens and families to promote healthy attachment and avoid attachment ruptures!
Credit
NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.
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Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois Educators Self-Study Instructions (15.4 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Illinois Educators Evaluation Form (1.2 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Christina Reese, PhD, LCPC Related seminars and products
Christina Reese, PhD, LCPC, has been working with children impacted by trauma and their families for the last 20 years. She is a licensed clinical counselor in Maine, Maryland, and Pennsylvania and is a licensed clinical supervisor. Dr. Reese is an internationally recognized trainer for mental health professionals in creating trauma-informed schools, working with mental health in the classroom and attachment and trauma in children. She is a TBRI practitioner and owns Felicity Counseling Services. Dr. Reese authored the books Attachment, Puzzle Pieces, The Attachment Connection, Trauma and Attachment, The Socially Confident Teen, and Leveling Up.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Christina Reese maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Sheppard Pratt Health System. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Reese receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Christina Reese has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Additional Info
Program Information
Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)Access never expires for this product.
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Objectives
- Recognize how maladaptive attachment impacts clients’ connections and exacerbates mental health symptoms including anxiety, depression, opposition, defiance and mood stability.
- Determine the risk factors of developing insecure attachment: parental substance misuse or abuse, a mental health diagnosis in the parent or child, a child with a history of abuse or neglect, and more.
- Distinguish attachment patterns that are healthy versus those that are rooted in trauma.
- Demonstrate strategies to meet physical, emotional and mental needs to build attunement.
Outline
The Art of Compromise
- Parents Promoting Interdependence – Being the Safe Place and Secure Base
- Recognizing when Attachment with Parents has been Impacted by Trauma
- Relationship between Attachment and Mental Health
- Avoiding Attachment Ruptures
- Encouraging interdependence and autonomy
- Understanding needs
- Exploring and Expanding Peer Relationships
- Healthy and positive attachments
- Compromise and other social skills
Power Sharing, not Power Struggling
- Timeline for Success
- Parents moving into the consultant role
- Teens earning freedom by being responsible and earning trust
- Teaching recovery and problem solving
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Educators
- Other Mental Health Professionals
- Occupational Therapists
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