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Catherine Young: Healing Attachment Injuries in Children & Families - Part 1

Attachment Theory in Action

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Working With Children in Day Treatment Programs

Ei, wy can speak to her experience with two different day treatment programs. The first one i was in a was in a small county and it was a county programme. And the second program i worked on was an after school type programm On some acreage. Kids would come after school which had the also benefit of giving parents a certain amount of respite. But they, they, they had an attachment focus. I don't know if they identified it that way, but that's that sort of the way they um they worked.

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Ei,
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wy, only can speak to my experience, which is with two different day treatment programs. The first one i was in a was in a small county, and it was a county programme, and it was school base, so the kids came to that clas, they had a specialized class room. And the great thing about it is it was a new programme, and we had a pretty low, we therpis had a pretty low ratio of clients to therapist ratio, and we could really explore, and this is where i started doing my exploring, sort of really explore a, what work for these kids. And so that was a really great opportunity. And i think we, we had some, a, some good successes in that programme. So there was no, we didn't come in with like, oh, you need to do, this is d b t, or this is this thistat. We didn't come in with the prescribed treatment modality. We came in like, oh, here are these kids. Help them. At gan, so hear im trying to do non directive play theropy andnd, i'm not helping them. So that's where it coud i launched my journey. The second program i worked on was a really great program. It was an after school type programm on some acreage. Kids would come after school, which had the also benefit of giving parents a certain amount of respite, which was really nice. But they, they, they had an attachment focus. I don't know if they identified it that way, but that's that sort of the way they um they worked. They had um rehab workers who would have anywhere from four to six kids that were in their group. And they would stay as a group. They would go through a bunch of different kinds of um, different kinds of activities. They would come toa group therapy. I did group therapy with them um, and then also did individual withnd. There was another therapist to who did individual some of the kids. And again, i had complete freedom to do what i wanted to do. And this is, at this point i was working with um m, with this model, and this is where i really had some some good successes. Also, the programm itself was very supportive of it had parents coming in, which is is, as criticals, you know, fairly critical in this kind of work. And also m we had regular meetings as a team, and met with and worked closely with the people who the re have workers who were with the kids, like all the time in the programme. And it was a really good cohesive programme. So i think that it, m i think that worked wellnd
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ye, and and, you know, grand ou know, that's not not specifically what you're here to talk about to day, but it does sound like that was an opportunity to really refine some of your ideas and im put together how you were going to do this work. And i'm really happy to hear too that, i guess what i hear you saying there is, with enough flexibility and with understanding attachment, you can put together, you know, a day treatment programme that that might be really effective with the population that a lot of our listeners listen to, im in terms of kids with a lot of drama and attach attachment ti serruptions in their history.

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