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Developing Secure Attachment

CE Hours 2

About this course

This online workshop with Dr. Lisa Firestone will provide tools to help people heal insecure attachment, resolve trauma, integrate their emotions, and flourish in all their relationships. This two-part online workshop will introduce: How childhood attachment patterns affect individuals and their relationships A framework for resolving childhood trauma A process to develop earned secure attachment Cutting-edge neurobiological research findings to help rewire the brain Step-by-step guidelines for how to write a coherent narrative Every person carries around deep wounds, behaviors, and beliefs about themselves and others from their earliest attachments that unconsciously direct their lives. Early relationships help shape a person’s adult romantic relationships, how they will parent, and how they expect others to react to them. Attachment research shows that when people fail to make sense of their past, they find themselves reliving and recreating it, essentially re-experiencing old hurts over and over again. However, making sense of the past is the best predictor of one’s ability to shape their future. This two-part online workshop will introduce the tools for individuals to dig deep and resolve old traumas, big and small, so that they no longer haunt them. For mental health professionals, it will provide strategies to apply these tools with your clients. This workshop will draw upon the latest attachment research and outline the process of writing a coherent narrative. Research in neurobiology shows that when a person writes a coherent narrative, they actually rewire their brain to feel more secure within themselves and their relationships, developing earned secure attachment. This online workshop will include access to a video Toolkit of exercises to help you calm down and regulate your emotions as you work through understanding your attachment history and developing earned security.

SKU: 20335

Learning Objectives

  • Explain how child attachment patterns continue to affect people throughout their lives.
  • Describe, using cutting edge neurobiological research, how clients can rewire their brains to feel more secure.
  • Discuss how a patient, through the process of psychotherapy, can develop an earned secure attachment in adulthood.
  • Articulate step-by-step guidelines for how to help clients develop a coherent narrative for their life.

Learning Levels

  • Intermediate

Course Instructor(s)

  • Lisa Firestone

    Dr. Lisa Firestone is the Director of Research and Education at The Glendon Association. An accomplished and much requested lecturer, Dr. Firestone speaks at national and international conferences in the areas of couple relations, parenting, and suicide and violence prevention. Dr. Firestone has published numerous professional articles, and most recently was the co-author of Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships (APA Books, 2006), Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice (New Harbinger, 2002), Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion: The Wisdom of Psychotherapy (APA Books, 2003) and The Self Under Siege (Routledge, 2012). Follow Dr. Firestone on Twitter or Google.

Disclosure

DISCLOSURE OF RELEVANT FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS CE Learning Systems adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity ― including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others ― are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (formerly known as commercial interests). The following relevant financial relationships have been disclosed by this activity’s planners, faculty, and the reviewer: PLANNERS AND REVIEWER The planners of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships. FACULTY The faculty of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships.

References

  • Walsh, E., Blake, Y., Donati, A., Stoop, R., & Von Gunten, A. (2019). Early secure attachment as a protective factor against later cognitive decline and dementia. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 11, 161.https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2019.00161
  • Bosmans, G., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Vervliet, B., Verhees, M. W., & Van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2020). A learning theory of attachment: Unraveling the black box of attachment development. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 113, 287-298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.03.014
  • Thompson, R. A., Laible, D., Padilla-Walker, L. M., & Carlo, G. (2019). Early moral development and attachment theory (Vol. 21). The Oxford handbook of parenting and moral development.
  • Homan, K. J. (2018). Secure attachment and eudaimonic well-being in late adulthood: The mediating role of self-compassion. Aging & mental health, 22(3), 363-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2016.1254597
  • Johnson, S. (2019). Attachment in action—changing the face of 21st century couple therapy. Current opinion in psychology, 25, 101-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.03.007
  • Burback, L., Forner, C., Winkler, O. K., Al-Shamali, H. F., Ayoub, Y., Paquet, J., & Verghese, M. (2024). Survival, Attachment, and Healing: An Evolutionary Lens on Interventions for Trauma-Related Dissociation. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 17, 2403–2431. https://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S402456
  • Finch, K., Lawrence, D., Williams, M. O., Thompson, A. R., & Hartwright, C. (2024). Relationships between adverse childhood experiences, attachment, resilience, psychological distress and trauma among forensic mental health populations. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 35(5), 660–684. https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2024.2365149

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Content

  • Materials
    5 parts
    • Welcome to your Course!
    • Developing Secure Attachment - Part 1
    • Google PDF Slides- Part 1
    • Developing Secure Attachment - Part 2
    • Google PDF Slides- Part 2
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  • Publication Date
    Aug 4th, 2025

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