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
Presenter
Joanne Brown, RSW
Joanne Brown has been a clinical social worker for close to 30 years, 26 of those at New Directions, always working with families who are struggling to overcome past trauma, current functioning struggles and parent all at the same time. Joanne has trained extensively in many modalities of attachment, in particular, Circle of Security, and volunteers her time to co-chair the Attachment Network of Manitoba. Joanne is often called upon to give workshops or talks to various groups on attachment, trauma, parenting and such. Her work in Family Therapy Services is to liaise with child care centres and families involved in daycare who are struggling.