Orchestrating the Tasks of Therapy: Treatment Planning for Attachment, Trauma, and Loss: ATFT Module #2
Presented by
Deborah D. Gray, LICSWThis module will describe how to set up a treatment plan for children, making certain that they have enough connection and emotional resource to do trauma or loss work. We will go over evidence based, essential tasks in trauma and loss work with children.
Overview
ATFT Module #2 3 CEs
These workshops were recorded as part of the ATFT Certificate program, but therapists will find them very useful as stand alone learning sessions.
After grief and trauma, children can both yearn for secure attachment but simultaneously push away when parents are attempting to get close. At times children want to get close but parents are pushing away. This video will summarize the most successful approaches in working with families.
Children need to have connections to work through trauma and loss. Attachments provide the most robust way for children to develop stress regulation or to tap into the emotional regulation of their parents.
This video will describe how to set up a treatment plan for children, making certain that they have enough connection and emotional resource to do trauma or loss work. We will go over evidence based, essential tasks in trauma and loss work with children.
The video will include examples of positive ways to include parents, assisting them in creating healing homes.
Reflective Questions: Take a few minutes to practice how you would talk to parents about a phased treatment plan that causes more emphasis on attachment prior to an emphasis on children’s or teen’s behavior. How is the approach in the video similar or dissimilar to what youare already doing? What makes it helpful or difficult in your practice setting to work first on attachment and later on behavior? How will you get support if you need to make changes?
About the Presenter
Deborah D. Gray, LICSW has the honor of helping families to develop close, satisfying relationships after children’s earlier losses, traumas, and/or prenatal exposure to drugs and alcohol. In addition to her therapy practice, Deborah is an author and trainer. She developed and taught the post-graduate certificate program, Attachment/Trauma Focused Therapy (ATFT), which is now available remotely and in modules through Cascadia Training. Deborah has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from ATTACh (International Association for Training on Attachment and Trauma in Children). She was a Henry Meier Practitioner in Residence at the U of WA School of Social Work. She was core faculty for the Adoption and Foster Care Therapy Post-Graduate Certificate Program at Portland State University for 19 years, teaching on the topics of trauma, grief, attachment, and child welfare. Deborah served as the attachment consultant for the 5-year Quality Improvement Project for Children’s Administration. She has keynoted numerous State and Non-profit child welfare conference addresses, including the Joint Council of International Children’s Service Conference in Washington DC. She received her MSW from Syracuse University and MPA in Public Administration (Health Care) from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Deborah is the author of: *Promoting Healthy Attachments; Attaching through Love, Hugs, and Play; Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma; and Attaching in Adoption. She co-authored Games and Activities for Attaching with Your Child.