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Attachment-based Practice with Children, Adults and Families

Understanding Strategies and Promoting Positive Change

Time
Tuesday, 26 March 2019 - 10:00am to Thursday, 28 March 2019 - 4:30pm
Location (see map)
Radisson Blu Hotel
The Gasworks, 3 Cromac Place
Belfast
Antrim
BT7 2JB
United Kingdom
Cost
Member - £650 (33% discount) Non-member - £975 10% discount for 5 or more bookings.
Contact

Northern Ireland

Professional Development Hours
32.00
BASW
Northern Ireland

Attachment theory is essential for understanding how human beings function in relationships and how people develop social and psychological difficulties.  It is also fundamental for understanding what constitutes psychological well-being.  While attachment theory is a fascinating field of study, busy frontline practitioners and supervisors are best served with training that helps them to translate the theory into principles, tools and practical strategies for working.  This course does just that.  It is designed to increase the confidence of practitioners and supervisors to act as change agents with their clients and supervisees, and to understand and relate to people in an attuned way.

This training course introduces contemporary attachment theory, its links with child development, neurobiology and the emerging field of narrative medicine, which harnesses the powerful effects of personal stories on human development.  The course uses powerful case studies to illustrate how and why people develop different attachment strategies.

This course is for practitioners in social work, mental health, psychological therapy of all types, family therapy, education, criminal justice, adoption and fostering, residential care and leaving care services.  The course is also relevant for professionals who supervise staff in the above areas, and for students on qualifying and post-qualifying courses.

Click to read Detailed Programme and Learning Outcomes

Course Facilitator: Clark Baim, M.Ed., BPA, UKCP, is a Senior Trainer in Psychodrama.  He and Lydia Gurthrie are Co-Directors of Change Point Ltd., a training organisation focusing on the social care, mental health, voluntary and criminal justice sectors.  In the 1980s, Clark was the founder and the first Director of Geese Theatre UK, using applied drama in prisons and probation.  In the 1990s, he worked as a group psychotherapist for five years at HM Prison Grendon, and between 2000 and 2012 he was the Co-Lead National Trainer for Sexual Offending Groupwork Programmes run by the Probation Service.  He has studied extensively in the Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation with Dr Patricia Crittenden, and developed this course with Tony Morrison in 2002.  He has trained several thousand practitioners from many disciplines in attachment-based practice.  He is the co-author and co-editor of five books and author of numerous articles and chapters in journals and books.

Trainer's style - "Very knowledgeable, and good interaction with the group - lots of opportunities to ask questions and have discussions".

 

 

"Thank you for an absolutely amazing training experience. It was most inspiring. I learnt so much and I am now paying particular attention to detail when talking to clients and making sense of their discourse."
2013 Participant
"At a strategic level this training has contributed in a large measure to achieving (our) vision for adult social work and the requirements of the Social Work Reform Board following Professor Munro's report. Attachment informed practice strongly enables staff to return to the relationship based social work Professor Munro has advocated. [...] The non-pathologising approach integrates very effectively with social work ethics and values and an empowering approach to supporting people to make positive change. This work supports reflective practice, continuous professional development and can be linked directly to the PRofessional Capabilities Framework."
Impact/Outcomes of the Training
"The development of active listening skills in this course and the focus on types of coping strategies used by people under stress will be invaluable in all social work interactions. I was encouraged to challenge my assumptions with regard to certain clients' behaviour, particularly confrontational clients, and encouraged to work to understand the underlying reasons for the behaviour. I was also encouraged to balance task-led work with person-centred, relationship-based work on a human level. This was excellent and thought provoking training - really enjoyable and informative. The presentations were given in a calm and clear way.
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