Effects of Trauma and Restoration after Trauma and Loss by Developmental Stage: ATFT Module #5
Presented by
Deborah D. Gray, LICSWThe video module goes over emotional development at each stage, with methods of constructing more positive beliefs. This section will help therapists to sharpen their focus for assessment and treatment.
Overview
ATFT Module #5 1 CE
These workshops were recorded as part of the ATFT Certificate program, but therapists will find them very useful as stand alone learning sessions.
This video describes shifts in the sense of self that occur when a child loses parents or suffers abuse. At each stage of development, there are core beliefs about self and others that have been altered by trauma and loss. The video goes over emotional development at each stage, with methods of constructing more positive beliefs. This section will help therapists to sharpen their focus for assessment and treatment.
**Refection Questions and Application of Learning: **
Therapists are often trained to work on traumas rather than their effects of developmental tasks. Please consider a few of your cases or choose cases included at the end of this Notebook. Think through how development was influenced depending on the child’s age. Write about the ways that you can help with detrimental beliefs and insecurities that occurred at critical developmental stages.
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.