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An Overview of Attachment and Adaptation in Parent-Child Relationships

Monica Oxford, MSW, PhD

This presentation will guide the participant though understanding the attachment relationship as it develops in the first year of life. Participants will gain an understanding about how infants and young children adapt to their caregiving environment and how that adaptation shapes their emotional wellbeing and shows up in adolescence and adulthood.

Participants will learn how the caregiver-child relationship can provide the necessary ingredients for meeting a child’s core emotional needs to feel safe and secure. When this core need is met the child is set on a trajectory of emotional wellbeing and protected health. When this core need is not met, the child struggles. It is through relationships with adults that are attuned, predictable, and responsive to the child’s need for security that enable a child to reach their full potential.

This training is being offered at no cost by the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Workforce Collaborative (IECMH-WC) to any professional whose role serves or supports children birth to five enrolled in Apple Health (Medicaid) and/or their families. Sign up for updates from the IECMH-WC about more training opportunities and workforce supports here.