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Understanding Girls

DURATION:

4.25 Hours

TRAINING TYPE:

Online

TRAINING CREDIT:

Child Welfare Training Hours, Foster Parent Training Hours

GREAT FOR:

DCFS Staff, Community Partners, Certified Foster Parents

About the Course

In Module 1, participants gain an understating about how early attachment experiences impact one's later expectations for safety in the world, trust in and protection from others, and self-worth. Participants will learn to identify different attachment styles and how to apply the attachment principles of proximity maintenance, attunement, safe haven and secure base in the context of their interactions with girls to improve engagement, and build stronger, more secure therapeutic relationships. Attention is also paid to the role of insecure attachment in intimate partner violence and domestic minor sex trafficking.

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