Using An Attachment Lens for Child Welfare Practice

Deepen your understanding of attachment patterns using Circle of Security as a model to understand our role in assisting clients, and the clients’ defenses against our interventions. This three-hour workshop will inform case planning decisions for the children of concern plus the adult clients. It is aimed at front-line child welfare workers and their supervisors, or for those involved in child welfare matters in court.

Objectives:

• To understand attachment patterns; how they are defensive or protective patterns 
• To understand how trauma alters our attachment trajectory 
• To have a model to understand our actions/reactions to our clients