Attachment & Beyond: Working With Foster And Adoptive Families

Sally Popper

Karen Zilberstein

Speakers: Sally Popper and Karen Zilberstein.

Karen Zilberstein and Sally Popper serve as co-clinical directors for the Northampton, MA chapter. They have extensive experience working with children and parents struggling with trauma. Together they will present on how attachment relationships help ground us in many areas of social, emotional, and cognitive growth.

Attachment relationships have often been compromised in foster children due to their history of adverse caretaking and disrupted relationships. When youth enter new families, their working models of attachment interact with their new environment to create unique types of challenges. Often those difficulties interfere with the formation of a positive attachment in the new home and may trigger negative reactions in foster parents. Helping youth and foster families tackle attachment challenges constitutes an important aspect of treatment.

In this workshop, clinicians will learn about different attachment styles and how to help parents and youth work through maladaptive attachment patterns to create more positive relationships. Consideration will also be given to understanding the intersection of attachment with other difficulties youth may exhibit and the benefits and limitations of attachment interventions.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the different attachment styles and how to recognize them.
Identify interventions to help parents and youth work through maladaptive attachment patterns to create more positive relationships.
Explain the benefits and limitations of attachment interventions.

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These events are free, and registration is available up until 24 hours prior to the start of the event. There is no penalty for cancellations. Content level is suitable for working mental health professionals with advanced degrees. There will be no breaks during the programs.

Live courses are interactive and recorded courses are non-interactive. In order to complete and receive credit for live courses, attendees must remain for the duration of each event and complete the course evaluation directly following each event. A link to the evaluation will be shared in the Zoom chat box during the live webinar. To earn home-study credits for recorded webinars, viewers must watch each course and complete the evaluation and posttest for each course. Viewers have 3 chances to pass the posttest with a score of 75% or higher. Once the evaluations or the evaluations and postttests are completed, we will generate and issue certificates via email within one week of completion.

Credit is calculated by the hours of the event (1 hour = 1 credit, 2 hours = 2 credits, etc.). The time it takes to complete the course evaluation and/or the posttest does not count toward CE credits.

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