Session 9/15

How to identify and understand insecure attachment behaviour

Competences to be exercised:
• To recognize insecure avoidant attachment behaviour in children.
• To recognize insecure ambivalent attachment behaviour in children.
• To recognize insecure disorganized attachment behaviour in children.
• To know how to meet these three attachment patterns in a professional manner.

Theme of the session:
In this training session you will exercise how to observe and recognize child behaviour reflecting early attachment problems – how children may sometimes develop insecure patterns of attachment. You will get suggestions to how you can work with children and youth who have insecure attachment strategies.

Aims of the session:
Children and teenagers placed outside home have very often been exposed to many early strains: premature birth and low birth weight, which may affect development, a lack of secure care from parents with problems in their lives, and many shifts in caregivers.