Parenting the Poorly Attached Teenager. Fostering Families. A Specialized Training Program Designed for Foster Care Workers & Foster Care Parents [electronic resource] / Mona Struhsaker Schatz and Timothy Philip Faust.
This module is part of a training program for foster parents and foster care workers offered at Colorado State University. The module explores the attachment process and the long-term effects of attachment difficulties in the first years of a child's life. The module's learning objectives...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | This module is part of a training program for foster parents and foster care workers offered at Colorado State University. The module explores the attachment process and the long-term effects of attachment difficulties in the first years of a child's life. The module's learning objectives address: (1) ways of identifying the basic concepts underlying attachment and bonding; (2) ways of examining attachment disorder through a continuum from securely attached to poorly attached to unattached; and (3) ways of identifying problem behaviors in teenagers who struggle with attachment disorder. The module consists of four lectures, each of which includes reading materials, charts, and activities for individuals or groups. Lecture 1 considers the importance of attaching behaviors, and the dynamics of attachment between caregivers and infants. Lecture 2 discusses levels of attachment. A continuum of attachment from securely attached, through inadequately and insecurely attached, to unattached, is outlined. A range of social, psychological, and behavioral patterns in poorly attached teens is explained in lecture 3. These patterns relate to delayed development of conscience, manipulation, anxiety, problems with authority, aggression, poor peer relationships, and isolation. Lecture 4 suggests ways of parenting the poorly attached adolescent, including nurturing, helping the adolescent grieve the poor attachment process, teaching the adolescent to accept the consequences of actions, and providing psychological services. A form for evaluating the module is appended. (BC) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED353040. Sponsoring Agency: Colorado State Dept. of Social Services, Boulder. Contract Number: C-951209. Contract Number: UAA7T7C0000001. ERIC Note: For other manuals in this series, see ED 339 492-502 and PS 020 813-818. Cover title reads "Parenting the Poorly Attached Child (7-16 years). Fostering Families.". |
| Physical Description: | 51 p. |
| Audience: | Parents. Support Staff. Practitioners. |