Welcome to Attachment After Adversity: Building Resilience through Relationships!
For most children and youth outside of parental care or with a history of maltreatment, adversity has been a regular part of life.
As individuals dedicated to serving at-risk children and families, we can learn how to build resilience – or the ability to overcome obstacles – through relationships.
Best-Available Research
Access the best-available research and practices as you deepen your knowledge of attachment after adversity to better inform care for vulnerable children.
On-Demand, Self-Paced Format
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CAFO Certificate of Completion
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Course Curriculum
Introduction
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Vulnerable Children: the Consequence of Early Adversity
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Resilience: How We Overcome Obstacles
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Secure Attachment as a Core Component of Resilience
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The Development of Attachment
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- The Development of Attachment
- Secure Attachment
- Insecure-Avoidant Attachment
- Insecure-Ambivalent Attachment
- Disorganized Attachment
- Important Note:
- How do Early Childhood Adversity and Attachment Interact?
- Building Resilience Through Attachment After Early Adversity
- Children in the Care of Biological Parents: Family Preservation and Reintegration
- Permanent Placements: Kinship and Adoptive Families
- Children in Foster Care
- Children in Group Care
- Interventions to Support Attachment
- What Matters Most: Key Themes from Interventions
- Quiz
7 Action Steps to Building Resilience through Relationships
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Case Study
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Congratulations!
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