Positive Strategies for Attachment Issues that Build Trust and Connection:
Many children temporarily or permanently lose connection with their parents through foster care or adoption, death, separation, divorce, parental imprisonment, or even military tours of duty.
In the short run, emotional dysregulation can lead to behavior problems and school issues, and in the long run disrupted attachment can leave children and teens at risk for substance abuse, criminality, homelessness, poor physical and psychological health, and even early mortality. Parental loss and the trauma associated with it can make it difficult for youth to form bonds in a new relationship.
Dr. Janene Donarski, PhD, LP, LMSW, will help you learn how to identify and work with attachment, reaction, meaning, bonding, and support, (ARMBandS), a strategy she developed to address the emotional difficulties of many foster and adopted children, as well as other youth who have endured parental separation and who are unable to form secure attachments. Dr. Donarski will lead you in an in-depth exploration of ways to help children and youth experience and accept affective attunement, in an effort to encourage a secure attachment that can lead to emotional connectedness and behavioral change.
This seminar is a must for all mental health professionals who want to learn clinically tried-and-true approaches for facilitating emotional reparation and recovery from trauma, as well as strategies for working with children and youth who have been diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and/or Adjustment Disorder. Dr. Donarski will explore the topics of parental loss, trauma, building trust, self-regulation, resilience, and post-traumatic growth in an interactive hands-on workshop that will prepare you to promote secure attachments between caregivers and the children and teens that you serve.
Course Content
ARMBandS: sTRATEGY TO HELP YOUTH WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED TRAUMA AND LOSS
hOW arMBandS CAN HELP CHILDREN AND YOUTH DEVELOP:
ATTACHMENT: HEALTHY vs UNHEALTHY
REACTION: WHAT DO THEIR BEHAVIORS TELL US?
MEANING: CREATING/RECREATING POSITIVE SELF
BONDING: DEVELOPMENT OF INTERPERSONAL CONNECTEDNESS
SUPPORT: DEVELOPING RESILIANCE AND GROWTH
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| Course Manual_Clinical Strategies to form Secure Connections (8.05 MB) | Available after Purchase |
JANENE M. DONARSKI, PhD, LP, LMSW, is a clinical neuropsychologist in private practice mental health who specializes in neuropsychological and psychological assessment of children and adults. Dr. Donarski has over 15 years of direct experience working with detached children and families. She has served victims of violence, foster and adoptive children, and families. She has also worked as a family counselor and as a forensic psychologist/expert witness for legal cases. Dr. Donarski has been a contracted vendor for the State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services in Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, Van Buren, and Kent Counties. She has been retained repeatedly by Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service, Inc. to conduct independent psychological evaluations for state legal purposes in school-related issues. Dr. Donarski is also a certified EMDR Level II counselor. She has been brought in to assist college-level Criminal Justice instructors on the criminal psychology of behaviors, meaning, and motive.
Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion.
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