Integrated Attachment Family Therapy Training Course

March 8th 2023 - March 29th 2023

The IAFT Training Course is a twelve-hour training course led by Dafna Lender, using principles from two attachment-based modalities - Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and Theraplay. It teaches how to enhance regulation, connection, and joy between parents and children and guides parents to do reparative work around family trauma.

Children who feel hurt and angry disconnect from their parents – parents who sense that feel discouraged when their child-rearing approaches aren’t working. Even when parents attempt to improve their relationship through parent-child therapies, they may find that the interventions focus on improving behaviors without considering the core issues underneath: attachment and trauma.

This workshop training offers a different lens that focuses on the physiologic, nonverbal connection between parent and child to improve the relationship. Using principles from two attachment-based modalities—Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and Theraplay—learn how to enhance regulation, connection, and joy between parents and children as well as guide parents to do reparative work around family trauma.
Participants will learn how to:

  • Get to the heart of a child’s deeper thoughts, feelings, wishes, and beliefs without relying on the child’s ability to verbalize with words
  • Facilitate active dialogue between parent and child that’s both safe and gets to their core issues
  • Practice scenarios for de-escalating child and parent dysregulation, facilitate optimal arousal and affect regulation
  • Learn gentle ways to intervene and redirect a misattuned or critical parent

 

Praise for IAFT

“Dafna is a godsend, I have been to therapy to heal my own trauma to be a better parent and wasted no end of money. What I have learnt with Dafna through TRF is helping me to be the parent I have always wanted to be to my two adopted children who also have their trauma.

The way Dafna talks is as though it is to me directly, her experience is visible in the examples she provides which is very relatable, whether talking about the children or how I experience my children as a parent.

That saying of ‘heal yourself first before healing your child’ is so true, I can now stop and think what may be coming up for me and my children through those difficult moments. Thank you TRF for introducing Dafna to my world.” 

– Katie, IAFT March participant

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6 hours of pre-recorded lectures & 6 hours of live practical sessions

12 CE credits attainable

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March 8 2023 , 12:00 - 1:30pm ET

March 15 2023, 12:00 - 1:30pm ET

March 22 2023 , 12:00 - 1:30pm ET

March 29 2023, 12:00 - 1:30pm ET

Breakdown by Session

  • Describe the principles of Attachment Theory
  • List the areas of functioning that are affected by Complex Trauma
  • Describe the intervention of PACE
  • List 2 playful responses in a PACE dialogue
  • List 2 accepting responses in a PACE dialogue
  • List 2 empathic responses in a PACE dialogue
  • List 2 curious responses in a PACE dialogue
  • List 2 interventions for facilitating direct parent-child communication
  • List 3 steps in preparing parents for working in an attachment based model
  • Explain the condition of Blocked Care
  • List 2 possible reasons for a parent’s persistent defensive statements
  • List 2 techniques for regulating a parent’s emotions in a session
  • List 2 components of voice prosody
  • Describe the social engagement system

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Dafna Lender

Dafna Lender is a child and family therapist with over 25 years of experience. She is a certified trainer, supervisor, and consultant in Theraplay® and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and coauthor of Theraplay: The Practitioner’s Guide. Dafna has successfully treated children and their parents with a variety of backgrounds, including children raised in orphanages, with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, exposed to domestic violence and community violence, and children of parents with chronic mental illness and attachment wounds. Dafna provides training and consultations for psychologists and psychotherapists around the world.

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The Trauma Research Foundation is dedicated to an integrative approach to developing innovative treatments for traumatized children and adults, researching the efficacy of those methods, and to train students and clinicians from around the world in the science of treatment development, their clinical applications, and dissemination.

We want to ensure that our events are as accessible as possible, which is why scholarships are available. Please apply below.

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Integrated Attachment Family Therapy Training Course

$225.00

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  • 12 hours of training
  • 4 Weekly sessions
  • Earn a certificate of completion

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Integrated Attachment Family Therapy Training Course With CE

$275.00

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  • 4 Weekly sessions
  • Earn up to 12 CE Credits

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Trauma Research Foundation

2023 Integrated Attachment Family Therapy Series

February 22 – April 30, 2023

Online

Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and Trauma Research Foundation.  Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Psychologists (APA) Credit Designation

This course is co-sponsored by Amedco and Trauma Research Foundation.  Amedco is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  Amedco maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  12.00 hours.

The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Counselors: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, ME, MO, NC, ND, NH, NE, NJ, NM, NV, OK*, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY

MI: No CE requirements.

*OK: Accepts APA credit for live, in-person activities but not for ethics and/or online courses.

The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for MFTs: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, MD, ME, MO, NE, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, OK*, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WY

AL MFTs: Credits authorized by NBCC or any other state licensing agency will be accepted.

MA MFTs: Participants can self-submit courses not approved by the MAMFT board for review.

The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Addictions Professionals: AK, AR, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, IN, KS, LA, MD, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NY (held outside NY ONLY), OK*, OR, SC, UT, WA, WI, WY

The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Social Workers: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA, ID, IN, KY, ME, MN, MO, NE, NH, NM, OR, PA, VT, WI, WY

 

Social Workers (ASWB) Credit Designation

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Amedco 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 under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Amedco maintains responsibility for this course. Social Workers completing this course receive 12.00 GENERAL continuing education credits.

The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for Social Workers: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE,  NH, NM, NV, OH, OK*, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WI, WV*, WY

*OK: Accepts ASWB ACE for live, in-person activities but not for ethics and/or online courses.

*WV: Accepts ASWB ACE unless activity is held live in West Virginia.

The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for Counselors: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MO, ND, NE, NM, NH, NV, OK*, OR, PA, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY

AL: Activities without NBCC approval may be approved upon receipt of documentation prior to the activity BEFORE the event.  No approvals afterward by the board.

MI: No CE requirement

The following state boards accept courses offering ASWB ACE credit for MFTs: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, IA, ID, IN, KS, MD, ME, MO, NC, NE, NH, NM, NV, OK*, OR, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY

AL MFTs: Credits authorized by NBCC or any other state licensing agency will be accepted.

MA MFTs: Participants can self-submit courses not approved by the MAMFT board for review.

MI: No CE requirement.

The following state boards accept ASWB ACE credit for Addictions Professionals: AK, CA, CO, CT, GA, IA, IN, KS, LA, MO, MT, ND, NM, NV, OK, OR, SC, WA, WI, WV, WY

 

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