If a child has been abused, battered, or neglected by the individual that is supposed to love her most, then what would make subsequent relationships appear any safer? Our earliest relationships create blueprints for all our future relationships.
These early experiences in relationships create the lens through which we view others. Every interaction that we have with another individual is influenced by our own personal past experiences.
John Bowlby, the father of attachment theory, espoused that the first three years of our lives establish the blueprints for all our future relationships.
When we consider trauma in the lives of children it is important to realize that most traumatic experiences occurring in their lives typically involves some aspect of human relationship.
This training is intended for those that work with children and youth within the child welfare system. This includes child welfare workers, resource parents, youth sports coaches, youth mentors, teachers, law enforcement and volunteers/staff working with this population.
Learning Objectives:
· Normative factors associated with positive early child development
· The Diagnosis of Reactive Attachment Disorder
· The effects of child abuse and neglect on development
· Recommendations for developing a system of supports for children to counter the effects of child abuse and neglect
