Hi, everybody. I'm Dr. Donnelly Snipes, and I'd like to welcome you to today's presentation

on forming a foundation that nurtures secure attachment at all ages. Obviously, one of the things

we want to do as parents or as clinicians helping parents is to help people get a secure

attachment and a secure foundation as early as possible.

It doesn't mean that if people don't have that secure attachment before 18 months, all is lost.

We actually develop attachment throughout our life and as we get older, our attachment changes a little bit.

And we're going to talk some about that. And as we get older, our attachment changes a little bit. And we're going to

talk some about that. However, we can help parents and, you know, ourselves, if we are parents,

engage in activities that can help enhance that attachment relationship. So we're going to

go start out by identifying the careES approach to creating secure attachment.

And I just kind of created the acronym CARES because I like acronyms.

I don't know.

We'll explore the needs of children in infancy, early childhood, and middle and high school

to identify challenges that parents may face in maintaining

that secure attachment because, you know, children can be a little bit challenging sometimes.

And we'll talk about ways to promote secure attachment in an age appropriate manner.

The way we interact with a teenager in order to maintain that secure attachment is going

to be different than the way we interact with an infant.

The cares process for secure attachment, the child or person must experience a sense of consistency from the caregiver or

caregivers. They must feel like people are there and they can count on them being there.

They must experience attention. And some people need more attention than others, and that's going to be

dependent partly on the person. But all of us need our caregivers, our secure bases, if you

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