Center for Excellence in
Children's Mental Health
2007-08 Lessons from the Field Series
Workshop #3 - Afternoon
WORKSHOP TITLE:
Advanced Practice Seminar
PRESENTERS:
Miriam Steele, Ph.D., is the Assistant Director of Clinical Training at The New School for Social Research in New York. Dr. Steele originally trained as a child psychoanalyst at the Anna Freud Centre in London, England and received her Ph.D. from the Department of Psychology at University College London. Her interests include bridging the world of psychoanalytic thinking and clinical practice with contemporary research in child development; attachment research; bonds between parents and children; intergenerational consequences of attachment; and the impact of attachment in the fields of adoption and foster care.
Anne Gearity, Ph.D., LICSW, is a clinical social worker in independent practice, as well as a consultant to community programs and adjunct faculty at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work. Anne is also the principal consultant for Washburn Child Guidance Center's day treatment program in Minneapolis, MN, where she is working with staff on developing a treatment intervention model for young children at serious risk due to trauma and attachment disruption.
DATE:
May 7, 2008 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
LOCATION:
Mississippi Room, Coffman Union
CONTENT:
Miriam Steele and Anne Gearity facilitated an interactive workshop on the intergenerational consequences of attachment and intervening with at-risk children using the lens of attachment within the fields of adoption and foster care. This workshop expanded upon the morning’s session presentation and focused on case studies in addressing methods of intervention with maltreated children.
GOAL:
To provide clinicians in the field of children’s mental health the opportunity for an in-depth, interactive learning experience to bridge research to practice in understanding the intergenerational consequences of attachment and methods of intervention in working with maltreated children.
OBJECTIVES:
- Understand current research on the implications of the parent’s attachment representation in working with maltreated children
- Gain knowledge of key tenets of parent-child interactions important in promoting healthy attachment representations for adoptive and foster care families
- Learn strategies for intervening with adoptive/foster parents to facilitate parental understanding of a child’s state of mind
- Learn interventions to facilitate change from negative to positive attachment representations for our most at-risk children who have experienced maltreatment and instability in their lives prior to placement in adoptive and foster care homes
For questions or more information, please contact Ellen Lepinski at 612-625-6527 or lepin008@umn.edu.
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