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How Can the AAI Be Used in Play Therapy to Create Secure Attachments?
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One of the things I regularly hear from play therapists is their frustration knowing what is the most effective way to work with parents in play therapy.
This is especially true when working with children in families that are very challenging.
Children exist within the context of their families and supporting parents to be the therapeutic agents of change for their children is an important task for play therapists.
How do you engage parents in play therapy and support a secure attachment with their children?
How do you assess parenting capacity to create a secure attachment with their children?
Have you heard of the AAI?
The Adult Attachment Interview.
What does the AAI have to do with play therapy?
Learning how to use the AAI provides a wealth of information for play therapists to better understand parents My guest, Karen Doyle Buckwalter, LCSW, RPT-S, will discuss the benefits of using the AAI when working with parents and how it can help you better support parents to create secure attachments with their children.
If you want to learn how to help parents become therapeutic agents of change for their children, then you don’t want to miss this episode.
and helping them to create secure attachments with their children.
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Chapters
1. How Can the AAI Be Used in Play Therapy to Create Secure Attachments? (00:00:00)
2. Intro (00:00:01)
3. Today's topic (00:01:16)
4. Guest introduction - Karen Doyle Buckwalter (00:03:19)
5. What is the AAI? (00:04:20)
6. Practical Application (00:20:02)
7. Resources (00:30:54)
8. Outro (00:39:08)
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