64th Annual Conference
Thursday, March 8
Afternoon Open
Sessions
2:45
P.M.-6:00 P.M.
Session
304
Facilitating Secure Attachment and Preventing the Insecure
Attachment, at Least
Chair:
Irene Harwood, M.S.W., Ph.D., Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA,
Private Practice, Los Angeles, California
Panelists:
Arthur Gray,
Ph.D., Private Practice, New York, New York
Emanuel
Shapiro, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Private Practice, New York, New
York
Through
video/audio tape and discussion the application of attachment and
infant research will be demonstrated in direct work with infants and
mothers. The presentation will focus on self-regulation, dyadic
regulation and on the intersubjectivity of affect attunement,
ongoing regulation, rupture and repair, and heightened affective
moments. Discussion will follow on how to work with babies and
caretakers, as well as adults in individual and group treatment.
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1. Repair ruptures
in group, utilizing infant research.
2. Follow the affect to make appropriate interventions.
3. Identify the style of attachment in individual group members to
make appropriate interventions.
4. Learn how to recognize different body messages in each member to
empathically attune.
5. Explain how to use metaphors with mothers’ who cannot attune
empathically to infants.
Course References:
1. Beebe, B. (2003). Brief
mother-infant treatment: Psychoanalytically informed video feedback.
Infant Mental Health Journal. 24, 24-52.
2. Beebe, B. & Lachmann, F. M. (2002). Infant research and adult
treatment: Co-constructing interactions. Hillsdale, NJ. The Analytic
Press.
3. Gans, J.S. and Alonso, A. (1998). Difficult Patients: Their
Construction in Group Therapy. International Journal of Group
Psychotherapy, 48, 311-326.
4. Harwood, I. (2006). “Head Start is
Too Late: Integrating and Applying Infant Observation Studies, and
Attachment, Trauma and Neurobiological Research to Groups with
Pregnant and New Mothers,” International Journal for Group
Psychotherapy. 56/1, pp. 5-32, January 2006.
5. Tillich, P. (1952). The Courage to
Be. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. |
