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Digital Seminar

Creating Secure Attachment in Teens

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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!

Here's What You'll Learn


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

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 1 hour of video content
  • CE information to come
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts


Christina Reese, PhD, LCPC

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Christina Reese, PhD, LCPC, has been working with children impacted by trauma and their families for the last 20 years. She has provided attachment training to orphanages in Albania, trained school districts across the country on trauma-informed classrooms, and worked with adoptees and their families from childhood into adulthood. 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 (Trust-Based Relational Intervention) practitioner and owns Felicity Counseling Services. Dr. Reese authored the books Attachment, Puzzle Pieces, The Attachment Connection, Trauma and Attachment, The Socially Confident Teen, Leveling Up, God and Attachment and Hope for this Upside Down and Backwards Life.

 

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.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Also Available:
DVD
Product Code:
POS058075
Duration:
1 hour, 30 minutes
Copyright:
May 06, 2021
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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