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Integrating an adult attachment approach to psychotherapy
Deepen your practice with adult attachment therapy to foster secure, lasting change.
The theory of attachment clearly describes attachment as a lifelong phenomenon. For adults, early attachment experiences continue to impact adult relationships and self-perception. However, most therapy for adults doesn’t incorporate an understanding of attachment and therapeutic interventions based on attachment principles. This training introduces the foundations of adult attachment therapy, helping clinicians integrate attachment theory into their work with adult clients.
Learn the categories of adult attachment and help your clients move from insecurity to secure attachment. This training will present a model of therapy that will shift your theoretical framework to attachment-focused therapy. This model will help you assess adult attachment categories, recognize the impact of early childhood attachment experiences on the personality development of your clients, guide your clients through the process of understanding their adult attachment, mourn their losses and longings, and risk change to develop secure/autonomous adult attachments.
As a therapist, you will develop awareness of your own attachment style and its importance in the reparative process of therapy. Integrating adult attachment therapy into your practice can deepen therapeutic relationships and support meaningful, lasting change for clients.
Learning objectives:
- Recognize adult attachment categories.
- Assess adult attachment using patterns of behaviour and a modified form of the adult attachment interview.
- Use attachment as a paradigm for understanding mental health diagnoses.
- Recognize the adult brain and attachment.
- Use the model of attachment-focused therapy for adults.
- Make attachment the paradigm for therapeutic change.
Register now to strengthen your clinical practice with the tools and insight to effectively integrate adult attachment therapy—supporting clients in developing secure, lasting change.
