Understanding the Influence of Early Attachments
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Dr. Sroufe’s groundbreaking theoretical and empirical contributions to the fields of developmental psychology and developmental psychopathology have been reported to the academic world in over 150 papers and journal articles and seven books.
During this three-hour virtual training, Dr. Sroufe discusses what he and his team of researchers learned about human development over the course of the longest-running (40-year) study of attachment across the lifespan and across generations (known as the Minnesota Study of Risk and Adaptation from Birth to Adulthood). This includes an overview of the findings of research into attachment theory and how individual selves emerge from relationships.
Dr. Sroufe further explains how vulnerability, resilience, pathology, and health can be products of development. He also discusses the implications of promoting change for those with different attachment histories.
Topics discussed include:
1. Fundamentals of attachment theory and research
2. How individual selves emerge from relationships
3. Vulnerability, resilience, pathology, and health as products of development
4. Implications for clinical practice
1) Explain how researchers assess early attachment relationships
2) Utilize the theory underlying the internalization of early experiences
3) Compare the basic findings regarding attachment and development
4) Assess why change in self-organization becomes increasingly difficult
5) Describe how change is nonetheless accomplished
Audience
This training is for professionals working with people who have experienced complex trauma as well as people who have perpetrated abuse. Professionals who will benefit from this training include social workers, psychologists, clinical counselors, and interested paraprofessionals.
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Disclosure
Continuing Education Approval
American Psychological Association (APA)
Safer Society Foundation, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Safer Society Foundation, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Who's Presenting
Alan Sroufe, Ph.D.
L. Alan Sroufe, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Child Psychology in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. Professor Sroufe received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Wisconsin with a clinical internship at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. Dr. Sroufe has been an Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology and Development and Psychopathology. An internationally recognized expert on early attachment relationships, emotional development, and developmental psychopathology, he has published seven books and 150 articles on these and related topics.