Dafna Lender – Strengthening Family Bonds: Nurturing Attachment Security, Resilience, and Sense of Self

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Speaker:Dafna Lender, LCSW

Duration:1 Hour 31 Minutes

Format:Audio and Video

Copyright:Mar 14, 2024  

Media Type: Digital Seminar

Description

The crucial and often missing piece of therapeutic attachment work with children…is creating a strong alliance with parents/caregivers. 

Join Dafna Lender, developer and author of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy as she walks you through a detailed case example, illustrating the process of assessment, conceptualization and treatment of attachment insecurities within a parent-child dyad.   

You’ll learn –  

• “Here and now” dynamics that signal attachment problems 
• Tools for deepening parent’s regulation and capacity for providing a secure base 
• How to structure parent-child sessions to maximize safety, regulation and connection 

A must attend event for learning to facilitate parent-child dialogues to promote true healing and connection.   

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 three behaviors that may indicate attachment issues. 
2. Describe the structure of family therapy from an attachment perspective. 
3. Identify three techniques for facilitating an effective parent-child dialogue. 

Outline

• Assessing the extent to which attachment issues impact the parent-child relationship 
• How to present family therapy from an attachment perspective to parents 
• Tools for deepening parent’s regulation and capacity for providing a secure base 
• Structuring a parent-child session to maximize, safety, regulation and connection 
• Helping parents stay open and engaged to support child’s healing 
• Guiding parents in helpful responses within session  
• Facilitate active dialogue between parents and children that’s both safe and gets to their core issues 
• Limitations of the research and potential risks 

Target Audience

• Case Managers
• Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Child and Adolescent Therapists
• School Administrators

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