Bitesize Module: Webinar 4 - HELPIN...

Overview for Bitesize Module: Webinar 4 - HELPING A TEEN AND HER PARENTS CONNECT: HEALING AVOIDANT/ANXIOUS ATTACHMENT - Terry Levy

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Early attachment experiences affect the wiring and biochemistry of the brain, create core beliefs and narratives, and form the template for future relationships. Early developmental trauma (i.e., disrupted and compromised attachment) often causes depression, anxiety, shame, emotional dysregulation, somatic symptoms, and antisocial behavior. In this webinar series, trauma and attachment expert, Terry M. Levy, Ph.D., teaches you the concepts and skills necessary to facilitate positive change with clients who are experiencing trauma and attachment wounds. Via PowerPoint presentation and clinical videos, you will learn effective therapeutic techniques to help children, adults, couples and families achieve trauma resolution and develop secure attachment in their relationships. Clinical videos will illustrate how experiential interventions promote change and healing regarding the following issues:  Negative core beliefs, narratives and mindsets.  Avoidant and anxious attachment patterns in children and adults.  Trauma-related emotions, behaviors, cognitions and neurobiology (e.g., PTSD, dissociation and other survival coping strategies).  Emotional and behavioral dysregulation (anger, impulse control, self-harm, aggression).  Communication, problem-solving and conflict-management.  Dysfunctional and harmful family dynamics (e.g., abuse, neglect, rejection, betrayal).  Facilitating motivation and cooperation with defensive, controlling and resistant clients. This 14 year old daughter developed avoidant and anxious attachment patterns (rejecting, deactivated attachment needs, mistrustful, emotionally dysregulated) as a result of early developmental trauma and “failure to thrive” during infancy. Her symptoms included depression, anxiety, eating disorder, self-harm (cutting), suicidal ideation and attempt, and alienation and defiance with her parents. Therapy included experiential interventions (First Year Attachment Cycle, Inner Child Metaphor, Psychodramatic Reenactment) to address early loss, unresolved grief, self-contempt, self-defeating narratives, and facilitating secure attachment with her parents.

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