Learn how attachment and stress or trauma impacts the brain development and functioning.
What is attachment? What is the Positive Interaction Cycle? What is the Arousal relaxation cycle? What can lead to insecure attachment in children? What is the Disturbed attachment cycle? What are some adolescent attachment styles used? What types of behaviours can be noticed? What are some common signs and symptoms of attachment difficulties in children? How does the child brain develop compared to the adolescent brain when they have attachment difficulties? What is trauma and PTSD? What is the difference between simple PTSD and Complex PTSD? What is Adrenal Hijacking? What is PACE? What is therapeutic parenting?
Our Understanding Attachment and Developmental Trauma course will help you to answer the questions above and more.
Attachment trauma often leads to a “disoriented – disorganised” attachment.
During our Attachment and Developmental Trauma course, you will gain an understanding of how you can aid a child with difficulties within attachment. You will learn some therapeutic parenting strategies that you should use and avoid. You will learn what you can do to aid a child with attachment difficulties. You will learn what a positive family atmosphere can do for a developing child. You will also learn the difference in how different people cope with shame.
What you'll learn.
- Understand the concepts of attachment theory and how it affects behaviour.
- Understand the different types of traumatic stress.
- Understand the ways trauma can impact on brain development and functioning.
- Recognise a normal secure attachment cycle and the different types of attachment styles.
- Understand the common signs and symptoms of attachment difficulties.
- Demonstrate coping strategies to manage a child with attachment difficulties
- Gain knowledge of the importance of positive brain development.
Who is Understanding Attachment & Development Trauma for?
Our Understanding Attachment and Developmental Trauma course is for anyone who works with children who have difficulties with attachment. Our session is more suited to care staff who support and look after children on a day-to-day basis.
What are the learning outcomes?
By the end of this course, you will be able to…
- Discuss the importance of positive environments and family atmosphere on a child’s development.
- Discuss how trauma affects a developing brain as well as how trauma is related to stress disorders.
- Recognise what Adrenal Hijacking is within the different lobes of the human brain.
- Be able to understand what the difference is between simple PTSD and complex PTSD.
- Demonstrate how to show empathy correctly when communicating with a child who has difficulties with attachment.
- Develop knowledge, skills, and strategies that will increase your knowledge about how a child who has difficulties with attachment may perceive the day-to-day world differently to a child who does not have difficulties with attachment.
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