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Attachment & Complex Trauma: Overview & Effect on Child Development

January 14, 2025
6:00PM - 7:30PM
Virtual
Zoom

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Attachment and Complex Trauma: Overview and Effect on Child Development

Presented by Emily Becker-Weidman, Ph.D.

January 14, 2025 | 6pm-7:30pm CST

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Attachment and Complex Trauma Presentation

Conference Description:

Complex Trauma refers to chronic early maltreatment within a care-giving relationship. Complex Trauma is associated with pervasive disruption across multiple domains of functioning and child development, including attachment. This presentation will provide an overview of Complex Trauma and Attachment and a discussion of how disruptions to attachment effect seven domains of child development. Assessment and treatment will also be briefly covered, with an emphasis on attachment focused approaches.

Learning Objectives:

As a result of participation in this event, participants should be able to:

Explain what Complex Trauma is and frame its conceptualization
Understand attachment and how attachment develops
Explain how disruptions to the development of attachment occur and effect the child
Describe how to use attachment-based approaches for assessing an treating Complex Trauma

Presenter

Emily Becker-Weidman, Ph.D.

Emily Becker-Weidman, Ph.D. is the Clinical Director of the New Jersey Division of the Center for Family Development, Director of The Child & Family Institute’s Adoption and Attachment Treatment Center in Westchester County and Bergen County, and contractor for Hudson Valley Center for Cognitive Therapy in Nyack, NY. She is also clinical supervisor at Columbia Teacher’s College. Dr. Becker-Weidman is a member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), the American Psychological Association (APA), the New York City Adoption/Foster Care Therapist Network, the New York City Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Association (NYC-CBT), and the New Jersey Psychological Association. She has presented research at several national conferences, co-authored three book chapters on child and adolescent psychopathology, and published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals.

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