Swiis Training Courses

Understanding Attachment

Exploring attachment styles, their impact on behaviour and how to build stronger relationships with young people.

This training course is designed to provide wider awareness of attachment theory and its importance in relation to children and young people. The course focuses on behaviour associated with attachment issues and brain development. It explores how structure and security can encourage and develop children and young people.

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Swiis Training offers flexible, bespoke courses, delivered in person or via webinar. Led by expert trainers, all training can be tailored to your needs, meets regulatory standards, is CPD-accredited, and reflects the trusted quality and expertise of the Swiis group.

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  • Yearly Course Updates
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Course Content

This course will discuss a variety of topics including:

  • Introduction to attachment theory and the different categories, including updates in Attachment theory and Research
  • Key principles of attachment theory, categories and internal working models
  • Exploring Serve and Return parenting models
  • Understanding attunement and guilt and shame
  • Exploring updates in Attachment theory and Research
  • Understanding the importance of attachment on brain development
  • Exploring the 8 Core concepts of Attachment
  • Looking at attachment and adults
  • Exploring adolescent brain development
  • Introduction to PACE and blocked care
  • Overview of the secure base model
  • Identifying strategies to help

Learning Objectives

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Provide an overview of the key principles of attachment theory and explore new research
  • Understand what attachment is and its importance in relation to children and young people
  • Develop an awareness of attachment categories and where they originated from
  • Consider the effects that an early attachment experience has on children
  • Consider the serve and return parenting model and effects on attachment formation.
  • Explore how the developing brain is important to attachment and child development
  • Explore how stress can block your ability to care for a child
  • Explore different models of attachment and how they can help children to recover from trauma
  • Understand the importance of foster carers promoting trust and security and how it helps children to form healthy attachments
  • Examine a variety of approaches to improve the child’s attachment including Secure Base

Benefits of the Course

  • CPD Accredited
  • Qualified expert trainers
  • Updates in line with current regulations and policies
  • Flexible delivery options: face-to-face or webinar
  • Industry recognised certification

CPD Verified Training

All our courses are CPD verified and reviewed annually by leading subject matter experts. Each programme is refreshed with the latest research and best practice, ensuring you receive training that’s accurate, relevant, and consistently up to date.

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“I find the training delivered by Julia is excellent. She has vast knowledge and delivers this well. There is always research going on with regards attachment and it is great to learn about more recent studies which then helps us in our roles.”

Foster Carers

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“Gill was absolutely lovely and is a credit to Swiis; she’s warm, empathic and open. She was able to understand foster carers experiences and relate to their experiences very well. I felt very comfortable in this training session and included in the discussions and very much listened to.”

Foster Carers

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