Session Five - Overview of Attachment and Psychopathology

February 1, 2023
Session Five – Content Level: Advanced
Overview of Attachment and Psychopathology
 
The session will focus on attachment and psychopathology. The psychopathology will include anxiety disorders, affective disorders, trauma-related disorders, addictions, and personality disorders.  This will be followed by an overview of treatment for attachment disturbances.  This will start with Bowlby’s attachment-based psychotherapy, psychoanalytic approaches, attachment-informed psychotherapy, and new forms of attachment-informed treatment will be added to the discussion. The accompanying journal article will cover conflicts between motivational systems related to attachment trauma.  There will be an opportunity to present case reports.
 
Objectives:
After the completion of this class, participants will be able to:
  1. Describe psychiatric diagnosis related to disruption of attachment
  2. Identify how attachment disturbances affect development
  3. Prepare and present case reports and process therapeutic options
Readings:
  1. Brown, D., Elliot, D. (2016) Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair.  W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY. Chapters 5-6 (pp. 166-279).
  2. Giovanni Liotti (2017) Conflicts between motivational systems related to attachment trauma: Key to understanding the intra-family relationship between abused children and their abusers, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 18:3, 304-318, DOI: 10.1080/15299732.2017.1295392
Timed Outline:
75 minutes: Book Chapter(s)
15 minutes: Journal Article
60 minutes: Case presentations
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.50 APA
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • 2.50 ASWB ACE
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), #1744, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ISSTD maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2021 – 08/20/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2.50 continuing education credits.
Course opens: 
07/20/2022
Course expires: 
07/31/2023
Event starts: 
02/01/2023 - 7:00pm EST
Event ends: 
02/01/2023 - 9:30pm EST
Rating: 
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Available Credit

  • 2.50 APA
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • 2.50 ASWB ACE
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), #1744, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ISSTD maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2021 – 08/20/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2.50 continuing education credits.
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