Lessons from the Field: Attachment Series Workshop #2
WORKSHOP TITLE:
Disturbances of Attachment in Early Childhood (Event Flyer-PDF)
PRESENTER:
Dr. Charles Zeanah
PANEL RESPONDENTS:
Elizabeth Carlson, Ph.D.
Carol Siegel, Ph.D., LP
DATE:
February 5, 2007
LOCATION:
Great Hall, Coffman Union University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Campus
VIDEO HOST SITES: The workshop was video streamed live to host sites in Greater Minnesota. Click here for a list of host sites.
CONTENT:
Dr. Charles Zeanah, Sellars Polchow Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Tulane University, presented on the implications of theory and research in attachment, focusing on disturbances of attachment in young children, including the effects of maltreatment on the development of young children and protective factors for our most at-risk children. Dr. Zeanah is a renowned researcher and educator in the field of attachment and has directed a community-based intervention program for high-risk infants and toddlers in the New Orleans area for more than a decade. His research includes the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a 4-year longitudinal study of foster care as an intervention for children in institutions in Bucharest, Romania.
GOAL:
To provide human services professionals, social workers, educators and parents with an understanding of attachment research and theory and its implications for practice.
OBJECTIVES:
This workshop provided attendees with the ability to:
- Identify and discern the different ways that the term attachment is used in psychological literature.
- Distinguish among insecure attachment, disorganized attachment, attachment relationship disturbances, and attachment disorders.
- Identify risk and protective factors for the healthy development of attachment in high-risk children.
- Understand the principles of intervention for disturbances of attachment.
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