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Health & Fitness:Mental Health
990-Confronting Grief and Insecure Attachment: Trauma Informed Counseling Tools
2024-07-23
**Summary: Complicated Grief and Attachment by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes**
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**Outline Summary:**
1. **Introduction**
- Presenter: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
- Topic: Complicated Grief and Attachment
- Objectives: Define complicated grief, explore the overlap with trauma, identify risk factors, and explore tasks for successful grief resolution.
2. **Definitions**
- **Loss**: Change that includes being without someone or something, focusing on primary attachment relationships.
- **Secondary Loss**: Results from a primary loss, e.g., emotional unavailability of a caregiver due to substance abuse or depression.
- **Grief**: Reaction to loss encompassing physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual dimensions.
- **Trauma**: Any situation causing extreme distress, not necessarily PTSD-level.
3. **Primary Attachment Relationship**
- Forms between 0-18 months, critical up to age 5.
- Disruptions can have lasting psychological and physical effects.
- Quality characterized by trust, safety, and security.
4. **Impact of Early Attachment**
- Influences social and emotional outcomes.
- Predicts future interactions and relationships.
- Secure attachments help children feel loved, accepted, and valuable.
5. **Effects of Technology and Modern Parenting**
- Increasing emotional unavailability due to technology.
- Shift in family dynamics with daycare and dual-working parents.
- Importance of being emotionally and cognitively present.
6. **Consequences of Attachment Disruption**
- Anxiety, irritability, and sleep disturbances.
- Difficulty forming future relationships and managing emotions.
- Potential for cognitive and learning disruptions.
7. **Reconciliation Tasks**
- Acknowledge reality of the loss.
- Develop new self-identity and intimate relationships.
- Enhance emotional balance, confidence, and self-esteem.
8. **Intervention Strategies**
- Mindfulness and distress tolerance skills.
- Encouragement of supportive adult attachments.
- Support for parents and screening for postpartum depression.
**Time Codes for Major Points:**
0:00 Introduction by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
3:15 Definitions of Loss, Grief, and Trauma
12:30 Importance of Primary Attachment Relationship
22:45 Impact of Technology and Modern Parenting
34:50 Consequences of Attachment Disruption
48:20 Reconciliation Tasks and Intervention Strategies
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