Virtual Fall Conference 2024

This Conference will be worth 6 hours of CEUs in Texas

Incorporating Modern Attachment Theory and Relational Neuroscience in Clinical Practice (6 hours)

Learning Objectives:

• Evaluate the limitations of traditional attachment categories and explore the use of an attachment spectrum
• Explore how focusing on states of security can deepen secure functioning more quickly and efficiently than a focus on developing secure attachment
• Understand  the most salient aspects of relational neurobiology and how they can be  used clinically to enhance attachment security
• Identify two ways the lens of attachment "insecurity" can be misapplied due to systems that perpetuate the status quo

Conference Overview:

Attachment theory has evolved considerably over the past seven decades, and it isn't easy for most busy social workers to stay current.  This workshop will bring you into a contemporary understanding of adult attachment research and practice.  We will weave in the most salient aspects of relational neurobiology in a way that is easy to teach and use in session.  Finally, we will expand the conceptualization of attachment to include systems that create insecurity and discuss leveraging historical context and community to be part of the healing process. Each of these concepts will be discussed with an eye toward concrete clinical application, and a model will be presented that can be used directly with clients during sessions.

Attendance Link & Handouts:

- Digital handouts will be included. They will be provided on Friday evening, November 8th.

- Zoom Link will be emailed to all registered attendees on Friday, November 8th.

Schedule:

9:00-10:00           Didactic BAMA

10:00-10:30          Large group discussion Q&A

10:30-10:45       BREAK

10:45-11:45          Didactic MARS/Clinical

11:45-12:15           Personal reflections/discussion - break out group discussion.

12:15-12:30           We come back together before just before lunch and report out.

                            Gather pending challenges/questions for afternoon continuation.

12:30-1:30         LUNCH BREAK

1:30-2:30              Didactic Systems/Clinical

2:30-3:00             Large group discussion/Q&A

3:00-3:15          BREAK

3:15-4:00              Didactic/Discussion Clinical

About Sue Marriott, LCSW CGP

Sue Marriott has been in clinical practice for over thirty years. She continues seeing clients in group and individual therapy and provides training for therapists and the public in national venues. She co-authored the critically acclaimed new book Secure Relating Holding Your Own in an Insecure World (HarperCollins  2024), which updates and expands contemporary conceptualizations of attachment and relational neuroscience and incorporates systems that create insecurity.  As a social worker, she values ensuring the life-changing relational sciences are free and accessible to all by co-producing the Top 10 Social Science Apple podcast, Therapist Uncensored,  whose episodes have been downloaded over 11 million times worldwide.   She co-founded Austin IN Connection and is the former President of the  Austin Group Psychotherapy Society, and served on the Board of the  Global Assn of Interpersonal Neurobiology.  She's a self-described neuro nerd who loves to geek out with you as she learns and teaches.

Ticket sales end at Midnight on Thursday, November 7, 2024