Training Seminars

Michael Orlans, M.A., D.A.P.A., and Terry Levy, Ph.D., B.C.F.E., are internationally respected teachers, trainers, and clinicians with an expertise in restoring attachments in children, teens, adults, and couples. Read more about the Trainers.

Attachment Training Institute

Come and join our treatment team in our Two-Week Training Program!

Training and Supervision Fee: $2,000.00.   No fee for training when participating as referring and follow-up therapist.

Online Training Application:

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Clinical training occurs in conjunction with our two-week intensive Corrective Attachment Therapy Program. The primary goal is to learn theory, assessment, and therapeutic interventions via direct observation of an actual case with a child and family. Family members participate in treatment for approximately 30 hours over the two weeks.

Each day you will observe 3 hours of treatment, followed by a review of clinical videos, discussion, and processing. Therapeutic interventions focus on child, parent-child, adult (family-of-origin), marital and family system issues. Corrective Attachment Therapy interventions include: first year of life attachment cycle, therapeutic structure, contracting, cognitive rescripting, inner-child metaphor, psychodramatic reenactment, anger management, social skills training, attachment communication training and the holding-nurturing process.

Learning Issues

• Historical Perspective
  
  
  • Basic Theory and Research
    
    
• Roots of Attachment
  
  
  • Biology and Evolution
    
    
  • Triune Brain
    
    
  • Prenatal, Perinatal, and Postnatal Environments
    
    
  • Developmental Stages: Zero to Three Years
    
    
• Secure and Disrupted Attachment
  
  
  • Internal Working Model
    
    
  • Empathy, Morality, and Resilience
    
    
  • Trauma, Maltreatment, and Disorganized Attachments
    
    
• Assessment
  
  
  • Symptoms of Attachment Disorder
    
    
  • Child, Parent, and Family Systems
    
    
  • Differential Diagnosis
    
    
• Corrective Attachment Therapy (CAT)
  
  
  • Structure of the Healing Process
    
    
  • Holding Nurturing Process
    
    
  • Therapeutic Style and Methods
    
    
  • Goals, Contracting, and Managing Resistance
    
    
• Family Systems Intervention
  
  
  • Basic Systems Principles
    
    
  • The Traumatized Family
    
    
  • The Adoptive Family System
    
    
  • Modifying Family Patterns
    
    
  • Parents and Family-of-Origin Issues
    
    
• Corrective Attachment Parenting (CAP)
  
  
  • Basic Concepts and Methods of Therapeutic Parenting
    
    
  • Parenting Skills Training
    
    
• Child Welfare System
  
  
  • Foster Care, Adoptions, and Daycare
    
    
  • Early Intervention Programs
    
    

Learning Formats

• Observation of Therapy with Child and Family
  
  
• Review of Clinical Tapes
  
  
• Group Discussion and Processing
  
  
• Written Material Provided (handouts, joural articles)
  
  

Scheduled Seminars for 2010

Contact the group listed directly for registration or details.

Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust and Love
January 27, 2010; Washington, D.C.
Child Welfare League of America Annual Conference
Contact: www.cwla.org; 703-412-2400

Treating Trauma and Attachment Issues in Children and Families
February 24, 2010; Peoria, IL
February 25, 2010; Springfield, IL
February 26, 2010; St. Louis, MO
March 24, 2010; Palm Springs, CA
March 25, 2010; Carlsbad, CA
March 26, 2010; San Diego, CA
April 26, 2010; Denver, CO
April 27, 2010; Colorado Springs, CO
April 29, 2010; Cheyenne, WY
April 30, 2010; Boulder, CO
June 16, 2010; Spokane, WA
June 17, 2010; Seattle, WA
June 18, 2010; Tacoma, WA
July 28, 2010; Blue Ash, OH
July 29, 2010; Columbus, OH
July 30, 2010; Cleveland, OH
September 23, 2010; Portland, OR
September 24, 2010; Eugene, OR
October 28, 2010; Roseville, MN
October 29, 2010; Bloomington, MN
Sponsored by PESI
Contact: www.pesi.com; 800-844-8260

Corrective Attachment Therapy and Parenting
May 24-28, 2010; Seminars for mental health and child welfare professional in various locations in Japan;
September 13-17, 2010; Japanese Study Group; Corrective Attachment Therapy
Contact Us - Evergreen Psychotherapy Center - for more info.

Comments from Previous Seminars

"Very informative and with significant substance to generalize to a practice. Very well conceptualized."

"I am very grateful to have had this opportunity to experience and learn from the wealth of information and skill, and also insight, presented in this workshop."

"This was one of the best conferences I have ever attended. You guys do a great team presentation. Also, the humor really helped balance some of the inherent sadness of the topic."

"Excellent. Behind the factual information and ideas was wisdom - it was presented in a way that imparted some of that - a deeper understanding of these problems."

"Very knowledgeable - professional - very helpful - I like the strategies/ interventions - the how-to's."

"The best! Worked terrific together! Material fascinating and useful - humorous and stimulating."

"This was an excellent workshop, with nice use of information - giving enhanced by examples and use of video tapes."

"Informative and entertaining! Your presentation is so crucial to the well-being of children."

"This was a great training - very interesting and informative. It will help me. Thank you!"

"Very nice job! The videos were very helpful, especially when combined with facilitator comments and group discussion."

"The learning for me, a graduate student, was phenomenal, but more important was how the experience offered me such a powerful sense of hope and how my heart was opened in new ways. You guys are awesome!"

"Thank you - case videos are invaluable! Really illustrates the material! Great 2 days."

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