About this program
Dates: November 21, 22, December 2 and 3, 2024
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET
This training is suitable for: Experienced therapists who have knowledge about child attachment and experience working with adults. The training will provide an advanced level of assessing and treating adults from an attachment-focused model of psychotherapy.
Client age category: For professionals who work with adult clients.
Prerequisite: Becoming an adult attachment focused therapsit from SickKids CCMH Learning Institute OR equivalent training/knowledge on adult attachment.
Please note: Participants of this program will receive a "Certificate of Participation" and does not certify participants as certified adult attachment therapists.
Description: All therapists will find it extremely useful to understand their clients from the perspective of adult attachment. This perspective offers a non-judgmental and hopeful means for both the therapist and clients to understand problems in self-perception and problems in relationships. Although adult attachments develop as a continuum of child attachment and are deeply formed by adulthood, they can be changed so that adults can feel more secure and create mutually satisfying relationships.
This training will help participants assess the adult attachment category of their clients, by understanding the behaviour of each category and offering a formal adult attachment assessment.
Learning objectives:
- Participants will be offered an attachment-focused therapeutic model that offers both general stages for change and specific strategies for each attachment category. This model will be explored in depth, using case examples from each category of attachment.
- Participants will develop an understanding of the neurology of adult attachment. They will be able to apply an attachment paradigm to known problems and diagnoses in the mental health field, such as borderline personality disorder (BPD).
- The relationship between the therapist and client is the central vehicle for change. Therefore, participants will be encouraged to be aware of their own attachment category and how this influences their therapeutic relationships.
Participants will complete this course with a deeper understanding of secure and insecure adult attachment and how to use this understanding to assist their clients to redevelop secure adult attachment or earned security.
SickKids CCMH Learning Institute is pleased to partner with Caversham Booksellers to offer a 20% discount and a $5 flat shipping rate (from $10) towards the facilitator’s published books, It's Attachment: A New Way of Understanding Yourself and Your Relationships and Secure Parent, Secure Child: How a Parent's Secure Attachment Shapes the Attachment of the Child.
To receive this benefit, enter the discount code SKCCMHLI24 at checkout when purchasing the book on Caversham Booksellers’ website.
Continuing Education (CE) Information: SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) to offer continuing education (CE) hours. Full-day programs equal six CE hours; half-day programs equal three CE hours; for less than half-day programs, one hour of programming equals one CE hour. SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute maintains responsibility for the programs.
Other licensing boards and professional organizations will grant continuing education credits for attendance at their own discretion; participants will need to submit the course outline and Certificate of Participation for their consideration.
Registration closes
If registration has closed and you're still interested in joining this course, please contact Mary Anne at mvanrooyen@sickkidscmhlearning.ca
Facilitators
Annette Kussin
Ella Rogalska
Accessibility
We strive to ensure our online learning programs are easy for everyone, everywhere. If you have any accessibility requirements (closed-captioning, ASL interpreters, advanced access to program materials), please email Mary Anne Van Rooyen at mvanrooyen@sickkidscmhlearning.ca to let us know how we can best support your learning experience.
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