990-Confronting Grief and Insecure Attachment: Trauma Informed Counseling Tools

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Mental Health, Education, Social Sciences, Science, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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**Summary: Complicated Grief and Attachment by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes** [Watch the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0duJ33ymig) **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 Feel free to ask if you need further details or a more in-depth explanation on any part of the video! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.0	I'd like to welcome everybody to welcome everybody today's presentation. I'm Dr. Donnelly Snipes and we're going to be talking about complicated grief and attachment.
1:14.1	We're going to define complicated grief as opposed to regular old grief.
1:19.1	Identify how loss of or lack of an attachment relationship may represent a loss that needs to be grieved.
1:27.2	Think about how kids feel, how adults feel if they grew up
1:32.5	and they never had that primary attachment relationship. A lot of times we hear things like,
1:37.4	I never had the childhood that I should have, or I never had the parents that I wanted or whatever the case may be.
1:46.0	We'll explore the overlap between complicated grief and trauma, which I'll give you a hint.
1:52.0	We're going to go over more on Thursday.
1:54.0	And we'll identify risk factors for complicated grief, especially as it relates to loss of
1:58.8	that attachment relationship or lack thereof and
2:02.6	explore tasks for successful grief resolution real quick we're going to talk about a
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