OXPIP Training: Attachment and Intersubjectivity

Summary

6th June

09.00 – 15.00

This is a one-day training aimed at social workers, early years professionals, and mental health professionals who want to understand about attachment and how to apply attachment theory within their work setting. It will support professionals to reflect on the attachment styles of their clients and how this impacts on their babies. This one-day course is a pre-requisite for the Assessing Parent-Infant Relationships training, the Watch Wait and Wonder training, and the Supervised Contact training.

Learning outcomes at the end of the attachment training:

Participants will

• understand the importance of attachment in a child’s early development
• be able to describe the attachment process and the impact on brain development
• be able to recognise different attachment styles
• recognise the inter-subjectivity of all relationships, and how the behaviour and mental state of one partner impacts on the behaviour and mental state of the other