Creating Secure Attachment in Teens: Balancing Interdependence & Autonomy (HS - REESE - 058075)

Course overview

Attachment in the teen years can be challenging to navigate. As a child transitions to adolescence, their primary attachment with caregivers now shifts to peers. They reach for autonomy and freedom, some of which they are not ready for. Parents must balance giving just enough but not too much freedom, modeling interdependence and relationship health...setting the child up for success instead of hard life lessons. If there's been an attachment trauma, or other trauma, this will impact the parent-child relationship in ways that can exacerbate mental health challenges. The transition of the teenage years can then become complicated. You'll learn to: Discover ways that parents can encourage appropriate autonomy seeking Heal attachment trauma if it is present Help children to understand the shift in attachment taking place during the teen years Explain interdependence versus independence Implement interventions to use with teens and families to promote healthy attachment and avoid attachment ruptures!