Redeveloping Secure Adult Attachments: A Journey of Awareness, Mourning and Change – Annette Kussin

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On Demand

TIME

Instant Access —Recorded on 8th of May 2023

CPD/CE credits

6
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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 intimate relationships. Adults with secure attachments and healthy mutual adult relationships usually have had consistent nurturing and care from parents or caregivers. Adults with a history of inconsistent parenting, rejection or severe neglect and abuse develop insecure attachments. Yet such insecure adults can redevelop secure attachments in adulthood. By understanding the impact of early childhood experiences on their personality development and present relationships, mourning the losses and longings from these early child/parent relationships and developing a non-judgmental mindful stance toward their adult attachment and relationship patterns, adults can develop greater security. Read More

TRAINING information

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 intimate relationships. Adults with secure attachments and healthy mutual adult relationships usually have had consistent nurturing and care from parents or caregivers. Adults with a history of inconsistent parenting, rejection or severe neglect and abuse develop insecure attachments. Yet such insecure adults can redevelop secure attachments in adulthood. By understanding the impact of early childhood experiences on their personality development and present relationships, mourning the losses and longings from these early child/parent relationships and developing a non-judgmental mindful stance toward their adult attachment and relationship patterns, adults can develop greater security. Read More

Learning Objectives

Participants will learn:

  • The meaning of adult attachment
  • The adult attachment categories defined by Dr. Mary Main
  • Assessing adult attachment from behavioral patterns and using the Adult Attachment Interview
  • Mental health diagnosis from attachment perspective,
  • An attachment-based model of adult therapy
  • The reparative process of the therapeutic relationship
  • The Adult Attachment of the therapist and influence in the therapeutic relationship

This workshop will be of interest to: Experienced service practitioners working with adults in individual therapy, marriage and family and parent work, such as counsellors, social workers, social service workers, psychologists and other professionals providing psychotherapy.

Agenda

Part 1: 10:00 – 13:00 (ET)

• The importance of An Attachment Paradigm
• Understanding Child and Adult Attachment
• Research on Adult Attachment
• Categories of Adult Attachment
• Assessing for Adult Attachment
• The Adult Brain

Part 2: 14:00 – 17:00 (ET)

• Goals of Attachment Focused Psychotherapy
• Stages of Attachment Focused Psychotherapy
• Role of the therapist
• Conclusions and Discussion

About the Speaker

Annette Kussin is a registered Social Worker, registered Marriage and Family Therapist and advanced attachment focused therapist. She has worked in children’s mental health as a therapist, supervisor, manager and clinical director. She was the owner/director of the Leaside Therapy Centre, a multi-discipline clinic in Toronto until 2012. She presently has a private practice where she specializes in attachment focused therapy for adults, couples and adoptive families.

Annette has received advanced training in attachment focused therapy and training in the adult attachment interview. She offers consultation to agencies and individual professionals and regularly provides training to organizations throughout Ontario including Wilfrid Laurier University’s Faculty of Social Work, Mission Empowerment, SickKids Centre for Mental Health Training Institute, Safeguards Child and Family Training and many children’s mental health services and child welfare agencies on Attachment and Attachment and Parenting.

Annette has written her first book, It’s Attachment, A New Way of Understanding Yourself and Your Relationships, published by Guernica Editions. The book is available on Amazon, at Caversham Books, Indigo and from the Publisher Guernica Editions on their Miroland section. Her second book Secure Parent, Secure Child: How a Parents Attachment Shapes the Attachment of the Child will be available in the spring of 2023. It can be preordered on Amazon.

CPD/CE

CPD / CE / NBCC credits available: 6

How do I receive these credits? The participant must pass the multiple-choice test with a minimum score of 80%. There is a maximum of three attempts to achieve this. The post-test is included in the price of the training.

Does my regulatory body accept the credits? The CPD & CE credits awarded can be used towards your declaration to any governing regulatory body in your state or country, provided the content is relevant to your discipline.

Our trainings are accredited by:

– The CPD Group, London
– Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
– Australian Counselling Association
– National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC)

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