ATTACHMENT THEORY -- IN PRACTICE
-- Audiovisual Resources
These audiovisual materials were obtained as free downloads from Psychotherapy Networker -- [LINK] -- a most valuable resource for counsellors and therapists.
These resources discuss important elements in helping men in counselling -- please note: these are of approximately an hour's duration, and approximately 300Mb in size (video), or 100 Mb (audio) so bandwidth considerationa are important. ALSO -- these are provided as "professional-to-professional" communicatioms, and must be properly cited (back to Psychotherapy Networker as the producer) -- [LINK]), and should not be re-produced without proper permission.
- Session 1, Presencing Secure Attachment
-- with Diane Poole Heller, Ph.D.:.
With Diane Poole Heller you'll be able to distinguish between the four basic attachment styles and explain how to create safety in a client’s first interview. You'll also be able to describe how to adapt your therapeutic style with an avoidant-attached client.
Website: [LINK]
MP3 format [LINK] - Session 2, When Is Attachment the Issue?
-- with Bruce Ecker, M.A., L.M.F.T..
When Is Attachment the Issue? With Bruce Ecker, M.A., L.M.F.T.
Expand your knowledge of how to determine when a client needs attachment-based interventions and learn a three-step process, based on a new neuroscientific understanding of memory reconsolidation, that dissolves symptom-generating emotional learnings. Free chapter of new book! [LINK]
website [LINK] video [LINK] MP3 format [LINK] - Session 3 - Hearts and Bones: Attachment and Sexuality
-- with Susan Johnson, Ed.D.
Deepen your understanding of what secure, integrated sexuality looks like by exploring new research about mating and bonding that suggests how sexual problems can best be addressed in attachment-based couples therapy.
video [LINK] MP3 [LINK] - Session 4 Getting Through to Shutdown Children and Families
-- with Daniel Hughes, Ph.D.
Learn how to help overstressed, burned-out parents reestablish a more empathic dialogue with their kids, and how to apply the skills of PACE (play, acceptance, curiosity and empathy) in therapeutic communication to join with otherwise shutdown kids and their parents.
video [LINK] MP3 [LINK] - Session 5 Attachment Issues in Chronic Pain
-- with Maggie Phillips, Ph.D.
Explore the latest research on the psycho-neurobiology of chronic pain to discover how finding the connection between past attachment issues and current physical difficulties can help clients discover the source of their pain, increase their ability to self-regulate, and access greater inner resiliency.
video [LINK] MP3 [LINK] - Session 6 Healing Attachment Wounds with Energy Psychology
-- with David Feinstein, Ph.D.
In this, the final episode in the series, discover how Emotional Freedom Techniques and other approaches that combine tapping on acupuncture points with imaginal exposure can quickly neutralize the charge of unresolved attachment wounds and trauma, enhance clients’ capacity for self-regulation and interrupt escalating patterns of reactivity in relationship systems.
video [LINK] MP3 [LINK]