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Supporting System Involved Youth Separated from Biological Families: The Impact of Traumatic Separation on Attachment

Fri, Aug 19

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Pamela Parkinson, Ph.D., LCSW

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Supporting System Involved Youth Separated from Biological Families: The Impact of Traumatic Separation on Attachment
Supporting System Involved Youth Separated from Biological Families: The Impact of Traumatic Separation on Attachment

Time & Location

Aug 19, 2022, 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM PDT

Online Event

About the Event

Pamela Parkinson, Ph.D., LCSW

Training Description

Do we realize the attachment trauma that family separation has on our kids of all ages? This includes kids being separated from their families in foster care, juvenile justice, immigrating to the U.S., etc. What does this breaking up of families do to our kids? This training will look at the deep attachment ruptures that are occurring for system-involved youth and other ruptures that are happening in their lives and which are contributing to the behaviors for which they are exhibiting. These ruptures are interfering with positive outcomes of system involved youth and we need to understand that.

Learning Objectives

· Explore what is meant by the trauma of lossand the attachment ruptures that these traumatic losses create.

· Learn how these original attachment ruptures create trauma in our system-involved youth, how this results in ongoing retraumatization, and ways that we can decrease the…

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