Attachment Centered Family Therapy-Interventions for Improving Parent-Child Connection and Attunement – Dafna Lender

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When attachment trauma permeates a family, children are left feeling hurt, angry, and disconnected from their caregivers – and caregivers, in turn, become discouraged when their child-rearing approaches aren’t working to address problematic behavior.

Unless and until the core issues are addressed, this cycle will continue!

Watch Dafna Lender, LCSW, internationally recognized attachment-based trauma expert, for this 3-hour recording overflowing with compelling insight and concrete strategies you can use right away to help traumatized families connect and repair. 

Through the lens of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and Theraplay®, you’ll discover how to:

• Uncover the core issues that underlie problematic behavior or relationships
• Gently intervene when a parent is misattuned or critical
• Engage caregivers in the crucial reparative work that leads to improved connection, regulation, and joy
• And more!

Don’t miss this opportunity to renew your sense of confidence and skill in your work with kids and families!

1. Describe the principles of Attachment Theory.
2. Demonstrate the PACE model to engage caregivers in effectively responding to their child(ren).
3. Determine the elements of the social engagement system as it pertains to the parent child relationship.

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• Calm a dysregulated child and engage a withdrawn child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