Explore attachment and foster secure relationships
Deepen your understanding of the science of attachment and discover how it impacts child development.
AFFORDABLE
SELF-PACED
Research-Based
Understanding attachment builds deeper bonds
Do you want to know how to build stronger relationships? To create loving and heartwarming interactions? Do you want to establish foundations for trust, empathy, and understanding connections?
This is where The Science of Attachment course comes in.
You will explore and reflect on the research behind attachment, and learn the role of secure attachment relationships in children’s cognitive and social-emotional development. The course includes research-based strategies that parents can practice to foster secure attachment relationships with their children.
Secure attachments create positive
pathways for child development
Continuing Education Contact Hours
This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers for 2 continuing education contact hours.
Build trusting relationships
Attachment theory can be a complex concept, but by understanding the different attachment styles and the importance of responsiveness in caregiving, you can better address children’s needs.
This connection can provide the support they need to develop into thriving individuals.
The Science of Attachment course will provide you with education and strategies that will help you feel confident to support families in developing secure parent-child attachment relationships.
Research-Based Practices
Rely on this course’s up-to-date research-based practices in which a parent or primary caregiver can foster a secure attachment relationship with their child.
Builds reflective skills
Opportunities to journal built into the course to practice and reflect as you are learning.
Increases confidence
The course boosts your confidence in understanding how secure attachment relationships influence healthy child development.
Small investment — BIG outcome
Your $50 investment makes a lasting impact
Order Online Course
Access The Science of Attachment course online
Complete the Course
Participate in the 2-hour online training experience at your own pace
Reflect on New Knowledge
Put the reserach into action and use the strategies to foster secure attachments
See What’s Included with the Course
In this course, learners will work through four learning objectives to explore and reflect on the research behind the science of attachment, the deep emotional bond between an infant and their primary caregiver.
Objective 1
Attachment Theory
By the end of this objective, you should be able to demonstrate an understanding of attachment theory.
Objective 2
Impacts of Secure Attachment Relationships
You will learn the impact of secure parent-child attachment relationships on child development.
Objective 3
Ways to Establish Secure Attachment Relationships
Recall ways parents and primary caregivers can establish secure attachment relationships with their children.
Objective 4
Supporting Families in Developming Secure Attachment Relationships
Learn various strategies for supporting families in developing secure parent-child attachment relationships.
Research has shown that one of the best predictors of a child’s happiness, social and emotional development, leadership skills, meaningful relationships, academic and school success depend on the security of having at least one caring adult in their life.
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