Class 1: Development Questions and Attachment
 
About the Courses
Aims
Know changes in normative development
Analyze and address problems in development
Assessments
Quizzes
Essays
Activities
Policies and Expectations
Reading Load
Attendance
Academic honesty
To know about you
1. Preferred name
2. Email [PLEASE WRITE THIS CLEARLY. THANKS]
3. Best phone number for emergencies
4. Career ambitions
5. What do you want out of this class?
6. Current job
7. Do you have child/youth training?
8. Do you have a kid? Age?
9. Have you seen any of these videos?
Therapy videos
When the bough breaks
Essentials of play therapy
Play therapy for severe psychological problems
Techniques of play therapy
Mariah’s story
Interviews with experts in child psychotherapy
Reclaiming youth at risk
Children of promise
Resiliency: beating the odds
Gay youth
Context of vulernability
10. Should Gollum from Lord of the Rings really have gotten the Best Actor Oscar?
BREAK!
Developmental Models: Are they really useful?
Maturational Approach
Unfolding of development
Example: Piaget
Does not explain individual differences in same-age children
Transactional Model
Bidirectional
Example: Smiling
Circular
Example: Abuse
Ecological Model
Bronfenbrenner
Ever expanding systems
Microsystem
Mesosystem
Exosystem
Macrosystem
Chronosystem
Critique
Are these really testable?
Are looking at so many factors, systems, and variables really helpful in therapy?
BREAK!
Is Attachment really the mediator of development?
Introduction
Attachment is NOT just “bonding”!  
How attachment develops
Bowlby’s evolutionary and ethological orientation
Harlow’s monkeys
Video A
Video B
Video C
Attachment helped our ancesstors survived
Infant cues and releasing stimuli
Functions of attachment
Providing a Sense of Security
Regulations of Affect and Arousal
Expression of Feelings and Communication
Attachment classification
Your turn: identify the pattern from these videos
Adult attachment
Working Models of Relationships
Class essay: Don’t worry! Just practice!