Attachment in Adolescents: A Treatment Model for Insecure Attachment

Speaker: Annette Kussin, MSW. RSW

 

Date: April 23rd, 2012

 

Time: 9 am – 4 pm

 

Location:
The Highland Country Club, 1922 Highland Heights, London, ON

Cost:
Early Bird Rate (Before Mar 21st) $165 plus hst= $186.45
Group Rate (3-5 people) $155 plus hst= $175.15 per person
Group Rate (6-9 people) $135 plus hst= $152.55 per person
Group Rate (10 or more) $125 plus hst = $141.25 per person
Regular Rate (After Mar 21st) $175 plus hst= $197.75

*A CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE WILL BE ISSUED*

About This Workshop

Although by Adolescence attachment styles are imbedded in personality and the brain, it is also a remarkable time to help adolescents with insecure attachments to make significant progress in redeveloping secure attachments. Changes in the brains of adolescents allow for the adolescent to examine their relationships with parents, to reflect on their patterns in relationships with peers and other adults, to leave behind the harmful patterns of relating they learned from their families and to risk creating new patterns in their relationships.  This workshop will explore Attachment in Adolescents and examine the categories of attachment as they develop in adolescents. Annette Kussin will present the latest information on brain development in adolescence and its implications for adolescent therapy. A model of treatment will be presented that focuses on helping adolescents have awareness of their early history and its influence on their present sense of self and patterns in relationships. The model will incorporate helping the adolescent make changes in their present relationships so that they can enter adulthood with the capacity for Secure Adult Attachments. 

About the Speaker

Annette Kussin, M.S.W., R.S.W.

Annette Kussin, M.S.W., R.S.W. is a Registered Social Worker and Registered Marriage and Family Therapist who is the director of the Leaside Therapy Centre in Toronto. Annette has over thirty years of experience in children and adult mental health in clinical, supervisory and management positions. Annette was a lecturer for the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, and Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Head of the Family Therapy Program at Hincks Dellcrest Centre and is a frequent instructor for Toronto Advanced Professional Education (TAPE). For many years Annette has been providing training to and organizations throughout Toronto and Ontario, such as Child Welfare Agencies, Children’s Mental Health Organizations and Universities.

Course Objectives

Topics covered will include:

• A Brief Review of Attachment Theory
• Categories of Child Attachment
• Attachment in Adolescence
• The adolescent Brain
• A model of treating the insecure Adolescent
• The role of the therapist in treating insecure attachment

Registration

Registration is limited. Please register early to avoid disappointment.
 
Payment may be made by cheque, payable to Solutions on Site. Cheque must accompany registration form. Registration by fax, phone or e-mail accepted if cheque is received in the mail within two weeks of registration. Post dated cheques not acceptable for early registration.

 

Rates:

Early Bird Registration (Before March 21st, 2012)
$165.00 CDN plus hst= $186.45

 

Group Rate (3-5 people)
$155 plus hst= $175.15 per person

 

Group Rate (6-9 people)
$135 plus hst= $152.55 per person

 

Group Rate (10 or more)
$125 plus hst = $141.25 per person

 

Regular Rate (After March 21st, 2012)
$175.00 CDN plus hst = $197.75

 

For group rates, please contact us for an invoice and total quote.

 

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