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Workshop Description​

Relationships with caregivers in the early years have a profound influence on an adult’s self-perceptions, perception of others and his/her capacity for healthy intimate relationships. Adults with secure attachments and healthy adult relationships usually had early experiences of consistent nurturing and care from parents or caregivers.  Adults with insecure attachments and unhealthy relationships, on the other hand, usually had early experiences of inconsistent nurturing, rejection or even severe neglect and abuse. There is good evidence, however, that adults with insecure attachments can redevelop their capacity for secure attachments.  They can develop such security by understanding the adult attachment style they developed from their early childhood experiences, recognizing how their attachment style impacts their sense of self and the unhealthy patterns in their present relationships, mourning the losses and longings from these early child/parent relationships, developing a non-judgmental stance in exploring their patterns, and risking change. 

This workshop will present methods of assessing for adult attachment and a model of therapy for helping clients to develop secure attachment. The therapeutic interventions will assist clients to recognize their unconscious models of relationships, develop greater security through the therapeutic relationship, and risk new and healthy interactive patterns in present relationships.  Attendees will also develop awareness of their own attachment style and its importance in their therapeutic work with clients. 

Topics Covered:

• Understanding adult attachment and attachment categories

• Challenges for the helper associated with each attachment category and how to work through these challenges effectively
  

• Assessing adult attachment using the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) and Behavioural Determinants
  

• Using the AAI as a clinical tool
  

• The neurobiology of adult attachment
  

• Understanding mental health disorders from an attachment perspective
  

• Goals and stages of attachment focused counselling
  

• Treatment interventions for each of the adult attachment categories
  

• The reparative process of the therapeutic relationship