Attachment-Based Treatment: Principles and Goals
- Attachment Theory – and what it means for trauma-informed treatment
- Elements of the social engagement system
- Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
- Theraplay: Structure, Engagement, Nurture & Challenge
Getting Started: Assessment and Engagement
- Discern underlying motives/feelings underneath a child’s behaviors
- Facilitating a safe, active dialogue between parent and child
- How to engage caregivers who are traumatized, too reduce defensiveness and increase empathy
Clinical Interventions to Create Connection, Regulation, and Attunement
- PACE - Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy
- In-SENC based on individual child’s needs (Structure, Engagement, Nurture, Challenge)
- How to gently redirect mis-attuned or critical caregivers
- Facilitating face-to-face interactions between parent and child
- Increase warm facial expressions, synchronized movement and rhythm
- Calm a dysregulated child and engage a withdrawn child
- Activities to increase warm facial expressions and synchronized, rhythmic movement
