Attachment and its impact on Affect Regulation and Dysregulation

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Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA Related seminars and products

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Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, is a recognized expert in the strengths-based, depathologized treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for more than 35 years. She’s a trainer and clinical consultant to practitioners and mental health agencies worldwide. And she’s the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors, Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors, and Finding Your Ruby Slippers.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lisa Ferentz maintains a private practice and is the founder and president of the Ferentz Institute. She receives royalties as a published author and is a consultant for Northwest Hospital. Lisa Ferentz receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lisa Ferentz is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the American Psychotherapy Association.
 

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Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Physicians
• Physician Assistants
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

1. Explain the relationship between, trauma, attachment, and affect regulation.
2. Distinguish between co-regulation and auto-regulation.
3. Describe the four attachment styles and their impact on a child’s cognitive and emotional development.
4. Describe the ways in which disorganized attachment manifests in the parent-child relationship.
5. Explain the challenge of attaching to unavailable or abusive caretakers and the resulting need to take “ownership” of the abuse.
6. Describe the manifestations of affect dysregulation and the impact of hypo-arousal and hyper-arousal.
7. Describe the “Still Face Experiment” and what it has taught us about the impact of insecure attachment.
8. Explain the role that digital technology has in compromising secure attachment.

Outline

• In the beginning: infants and attachment
• Processing insecure attachment patterns
• Processing disorganized attachment
• Co-regulation and auto-regulation
• The challenge of attaching to abusive caretakers and the price kids pay
• The Still Face Experiment
• Attachment and subsequent relationship dynamics
• Defining trauma and the meaning-making that mitigates or exacerbates it
• Caretaker as perpetrator
• Inevitable, necessary, creative childhood coping strategies
• The adult manifestations of childhood abuse and neglect

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