AM
   Object Relations: What Starts Outside Goes Inside
   Stages of the "Safety Inside"
   The Platform of Safety: Structures of Permanence and Constancy
   RAD Symptoms Revised: Normal Behavior Under the Age of Four

   Understanding the Impact of Abuse: Bodily-Based Survival Memory
   Mahler's Stages of Attachment: Relational Skills from Birth to Five
   Greenspan's Functional Emotional Stages of Development
   Assessing Conditions Co-Morbid with RAD: Differential Diagnosis

PM
   Parenting for Attachment Disturbances: "State of Mind" Work
   Assessing Reflective Function and Making the Reflective Space for Parents
   Making the "Empathic Shift": The Underlying Need for Safety and Connection
   The Circle of Repair: Repeated Experiences of "Being With"

   Building the Platform of Safety - Permanence Interventions
   Building the Platform of Safety - Constancy Interventions
   The Developmental Continuum of Trauma Resolution
   When Symbolic Play Is Not Available: Building Permanence and Constancy

Learning Objectives:

1. Give three examples of the skills which "start outside and go inside" from Object Relations theory.
2. Will be able to define Permanence and Constancy as the building blocks of the "Platform of Safety," and give examples of their existence in children.
3. Identify two of Mahler's and two of Greenspan's stages of emotional development in early childhood.
4. Identify the underlying need which acting out behavior expresses in maltreated children and define the "Empathic Shift" that parents make to respond to them.
5. Will be able to name one permanency-based and one constancy-based intervention for repairing the "Platform of Safety."
6. Relate the missing skills of permanence and constancy to the development of symbolic play in children.

Training content is didactic with generous use of video examples of work with both children and parents to demonstrate the material involved.