Attachment Theory and Brain Development

Target Group Level 3/Health 3

All multi-agency professionals working with infants, babies, children, young people and their parents or carers whose  work involves identifying strategies to strengthen parent/child attachments in the context of Birmingham’s Early help and Family plans and safeguarding procedures.

Aim

To enable participants:

• To understand children’s development and the importance of early intervention strategies with children and their families to promote positive attachments
• To understand the importance of recent research exploring the infant’s neurological development and the implication for practice

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the training program participants will be able to:

• Define what is meant by attachment and describe different attachment strategies that children may develop
• Identify aspects of early brain development that are essential for emotional and physical development and promote positive attachment
• Explain the impact of abuse and neglect on children’s development and attachments
• Demonstrate techniques which help children build attachment and trust
• Describe how attachment is used to socialise children and how it contributes to conscience development.
• Help and support parents to understand their children’s development and what they can do to promote good attachments