Asperger's Syndrome will be defined and used to illustrate development across domains and ways to assess progress and delay. For students with an introductory understanding of Attachment Theory, this course will review the clinical and historical issues in attachment theory. Students will learn attachment classification system through the Strange Situation empirical paradigm and the clinical use of attachment theory in individual child and mother-child psychotherapy. This workshop will describe models for consultation with directors, caregivers, teachers, parents and board members of facilities serving preschool age children and their families. Settings such as day care centers, nursery schools, Head Start and Early Head Start programs, early intervention programs and others can benefit from developmental and mental health interventions with children and families.
Models are variable and depend on the structures and needs of the director and staff.
Workshop participants will learn applied developmental and psychoanalytic principles that can be used to foster optimally nurturing policies and practices in their programs. The origins of normative and pathological losses and the impact of each in the development of the self will be considered. Clinical Social Workers, Doctoral-Level Psychologists, Educators. Intermediate and Advanced. These findings have begun to illuminate many puzzling aspects of autistic spectrum disorders.