Summary:
Individuals exposed to early relational and attachment trauma often experience a range of maltreatment from primary caregivers, including both acts of omission and commission. Acts of omission involve psychological and emotional neglect, such as a lack of warmth, sensitivity, and availability. Acts of commission include physical and sexual abuse (high-grade trauma), but also emotional abuse and psychological insults—repeated put-downs, demeaning comments, manipulation, and rejection (low-grade trauma). Psychologists, licensed mental health professionals, and medical personnel will analyze how these traumatic experiences have lasting effects, leading to three primary consequences: significant difficulties with emotion regulation, pervasive fear and avoidance in relationships, and developmental failures in mentalization, which is the ability to understand and predict one’s own and others’ mental states. This training will assess the latest research on the impact of relational and attachment trauma. It will also introduce five core, evidence-based treatment modules adapted from the Unified Protocol and Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) to address these debilitating symptoms.
Evaluate how to administer an attachment-oriented developmental history to help clients explore the effects of early relationship disturbances on their social-emotional functioning
Discuss how to teach clients how emotions work and how early adverse relational experiences interfere with emotion regulation skills
APA, ASWB, NBCC, IBCC, NAADAC, Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling, AMA PRA Category 1 Credits, AOA Category 2A Credits, Georgia Nurses Association, AAFP