Canadian Association of Psychoanalytic Child Therapists

and

Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis

in collaboration with

The Besner Parent-Infant Care Project

is pleased to offer a 4-part online seminar series:

Attachment Across the Lifespan and

Across Generations

Implications for clinical work with a focus on loss and trauma

PRESENTERS:

Miriam Steele, Ph.D.

Howard Steele, Ph.D.

DATES & TIMES:  

4 weekly online seminars, Friday afternoons, 12 - 2 pm EST

September 22, 29, October 13, 20, 2023

Seminars held online via Zoom videoconference

PLEASE NOTE – participants must register for the entire seminar series

ABOUT THIS PROGRAM

ABOUT THIS PROGRAM

Over four Fridays with Professors Miriam Steele & Howard Steele, attendees will hear and see a contemporary and historical account of attachment theory, arguably the most powerful available evidence-based account of children’s social and emotional development, with lifespan and intergenerational implications.   The Steeles benefitted from having ongoing direct contact over 3-4 years with John Bowlby in London (UK) where Miriam and Howard studied and worked (at University College London) 1986-2004. Miriam trained as a psychoanalyst @ the Anna Freud Center, and is a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society. Howard is currently a candidate in psychoanalytic training at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City. Since 2004, the Steeles have been based in New York City at The New School for Social Research, where they have helped develop a multi-family intervention (GABI or Group Attachment-Based Intervention) aiming to prevent child maltreatment and promote secure parent-toddler attachments. The Steeles’ work is heavily influenced by sensitivity to the adverse consequences of exposure to trauma and loss and other forms of Adverse Childhood Experiences or ACEs, with attention to sources of resilience and recovery, including ‘reflective-functioning’. The four-session workshop will provide a thorough introduction to the clinical applications of attachment theory and research, including how to identify unresolved loss or unresolved trauma in speech and behavior. Finally, there will be one lecture entirely devoted to our research including the Mirror Interview, highlighting links among body image, body satisfaction, and alienation from one’s body, and attachment.

Visit www.capct.ca for the full program brochure and details. 

The course resources will be provided in advance to registrants, please register early to receive your materials.

A certificate of attendance will be issued to participants upon completion of all four seminars.

COURSE FEE

$250  Regular

$200  CAPCT and/or TICP Members

$100  Students

SEMINAR STRUCTURE

SESSION 1. September 22, 2023, 12 - 2 p.m. EST.

Introduction to Attachment Theory, Research and Clinical Work

SESSION 2. September 29, 2023, 12 - 2 p.m. EST.

The Adult Attachment Interview  

SESSION 3. October 13, 2023, 12 - 2 p.m. EST.

Reflective functioning and mentalization-based treatments

SESSION 4. October 20, 2023, 12 - 2 p.m. EST.

Attachment, trauma and the body

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Miriam Steele, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, at the New School for Social Research where she co-directs (with Dr. H. Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. Dr. Miriam Steele is also an Anna Freud Center trained psychoanalyst.  Miriam initiated the London Parent-Child Project, a major longitudinal study of intergenerational patterns of attachment whose outcomes included the development of the Reflective Functioning concept and manual.  Dr. M. Steele has also carried out longitudinal attachment research in the context of child maltreatment and adoption. Miriam, with Anne Murphy and Howard Steele, has pioneered the development and delivery of the Group Attachment-Based Intervention (GABI) aimed at preventing child maltreatment, and promoting secure child-parent attachments.

Howard Steele, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, at the New School for Social Research. At the New School, Dr. Steele co-directs (with Dr. M. Steele) the Center for Attachment Research, www.center-for-attachment.com Howard undertakes a wide range of research centrally focused on the role of attachment security/insecurity across the lifespan and across generations. Howard Steele is also senior and founding editor of the international journal, Attachment and Human Development, and founding president of the Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies, www.seasintnational.org

Both Miriam Steele & Howard Steele were among the 2017 Bowlby-Ainsworth Awardees so recognized by the Center for Mental Health Promotion.   Howard Steele and Miriam Steele are co-editors of the 2008 book, Clinical Applications of the Adult Attachment Interview, and the 2018 Handbook of Attachment-Based Interventions, both published by the Guilford Press, New York.  The Steeles are members of the Adult Attachment Interview Trainers’ Consortium (www.mainattachment.org)

PROFESSIONAL  DEVELOPMENT

A certificate of attendance will be issued to participants upon completion of all four seminars.

These continuing education and professional development hours can also be used towards your continuing education, professional development portfolio for your respective colleges, including the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO). 

For more information and to register please visit www.capct.ca, contact 416.690.5464 or EMAIL us today!