Part 1: ATTACH™ For Youth
Learn about the theory and structure of the ATTACH™ For Youth program.
ATTACH™ For Youth: Part 1
The objective of this course is to prepare you to understand the ATTACH™ For Youth Program so that you can deliver this program to youth ages 11-17 years old in community agency settings, online or at home.
The ATTACH™ For Youth Program can be used as an “add-on” to existing programs or as a “stand-alone” intervention.
In order to grasp the ATTACH™ For Youth intervention, background in Mentalization and Reflective Functioning (RF) is necessary.
This course will:
- Teach you about Mentalization and Reflective Functioning (RF)
- Expand on the importance of mental health interventions and building resilience
- Explain why Reflective Functioning matters for youth
- How to use the above concepts to deliver the ATTACH™ For Youth Program.
Course learning for this course will be delivered using these methods:
- Written material
- Instructor videos
- Supporting documents
- Practice questions with answers
- Feedback from instructors in the comment section
Your Instructor
Dr. Nicole Letourneau is the co-creator of the ATTACH™ program and holds the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation Research Chair in Parent-Infant Mental Health and is Director of RESOLVE Alberta.
Her Child Health Intervention and Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Studies Program develops and tests interventions to promote health of infants and children growing up in families affected by toxic stressors including parental depression, addictions, intimate partner violence and low-income. She is also the Principle Investigator of APrON, a 16-year longitudinal follow-up of a pregnancy cohort.
She has published 350+ peer-reviewed papers, 350+ opinion editorials appearing in major print and on-line news outlets and two books for the lay public: Scientific Parenting: What Science Reveals About Parental Influence (2013) and What Kind of Parent Am I?: Self-Surveys that Reveal the Impact of of Toxic Stress and More (2018), both from Dundurn.
E-mail: nicole.letourneau@ucalgary.ca
Martha Hart, Ph.D., is the co-creator of the ATTACH™ program and is a well-trained researcher at the University of Calgary/Alberta Children’s Hospital, board member of IASA, and founder of The Owen Hart Foundation. Her present research includes co-creating and pilot testing the Attachment and Child Health (ATTACH™) Intervention, which explores links between parental reflective function (RF) and parent/child attachment led by Nicole Letourneau.
She has published various peer-reviewed papers and has co-edited Development and Adaptation: Seminal Papers on the Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation, published by Waterside Press, with another book in publication.
Email: mhart@ucalgary.ca