Dafna Lender – Integrative Attachment Family Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Improving Parent-Child Connection and Attunement for Trauma Recovery

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Speaker:Dafna Lender, LCSW

Duration:2 Hours 42 Minutes

Format:Audio and Video

Copyright:Aug 29, 2023  

Media Type:Digital Seminar

Description

When attachment ruptures permeate a family, children are left feeling confused, hurt, and disconnected from their caregivers…feelings that are most disguised as oppositional behavior.

In turn, caregivers become frustrated and discouraged when their child-rearing approaches aren’t working to address what they think are behavior issues…which leaves them both feeling more disconnected than ever. And the cycle continues.

This is where you step in.

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

This experiential training will allow you to observe, learn, and practice skills that: 

• Uncover the core issues that underlie problematic behavior or relationships 
• Get to the heart of a child’s deeper thoughts, feelings, and wishes (without words!) 
• Teach caregivers crucial reparative skills to improve connection, regulation, and joy 
• Reduce the intensity of a session’s content so the child and/or caregiver can “stay in it” 
• Effectively yet gently address caregivers who are mis-attuned, critical, or defensive 
• And more! 

Speaker

Dafna Lender, LCSW, is an international trainer and supervisor for practitioners who work with children and families. She is a certified trainer and supervisor/consultant in both Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and an EMDR therapist. Dafna’s expertise is drawn from 25 years of working with families with attachment in many settings: at-risk after school programs, therapeutic foster care, in-home crisis stabilization, residential care and private practice. Dafna’s style, whether as a therapist or teacher, is combining the light-hearted with the profound by bringing a playful, intense and passionate presence to every encounter. Dafna is the author of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy (2023) and co-author of Theraplay® – The Practitioner’s Guide (2020).

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Dafna Lender maintains a private practice. She is a published author and receives royalties. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dafna Lender is an author for Psychotherapy Networker.

Objectives

1. Demonstrate facilitation of active dialogue between caregiver and child in an emotionally safe and clinically driven manner.  
2. Utilize the PACE model to engage caregivers in effectively responding to their child(ren).  
3. Apply a trauma-informed intervention style to engage caregivers with trauma history who present as withdrawn, critical, or defensive.

Outline

IAFT: A Nonverbal, Physiologic Approach to Helping Families Heal 

• Principles and goals of attachment-based treatment 
• The effects of early trauma and attachment disruption 
• Assessment: Discern underlying motives and feelings underneath a child’s behavior 

Clinical Interventions for Creating and Teaching Connection, Regulation, and Attunement 

• Facilitating active dialogue between caregiver and child 
• Using facial expressions, synchronized movement, and rhythm to create warmth 
• Therapeutic activities to calm dysregulation and engage withdrawn children/caregivers 
• PACE – Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy 
• How to reduce the intensity of the session’s content so the child and/or caregiver can “stay in it” 
• Identify early signs of escalation to prevent withdrawal or sabotage of the session 
• Engaging caregivers who are traumatized, withdrawn, critical, or defensive 

Target Audience

• Counselors 
• Social Workers 
• Psychologists 
• Psychiatrists 
• Psychotherapists 
• Occupational Therapists 
• Speech Language Pathologists 
• Therapists 
• Case Managers 
• Marriage & Family Therapists 
• Other Mental Health Professionals 

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