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	Parent-Child Attachment Preview Description Testimonials Related Courses Share Betsy Keefer Smalley, LSW, and Dr. Richard Delaney lead this pre-service course on attachment. You'll learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy attachment, how separation and loss affect attachment, and how attachment theory applies to real life. Supplemental handouts round out the course. At the end of this course, you will be able to: discuss the importance of attachment for the healthy emotional development of a child describe the potential negative effects of maltreatment, separation and loss describe how issues of divided loyalty, perceived abandonment or rejection, reactivation of feelings from previous separations, and ambivalence about attachment and permanence play a role in emotional conflict discuss how insecure attachment established earlier in life impacts a child's behavior while in placement Being a foster parent, this course has been very helpful for me to talk and help the children in my care. Now that I know more of how to help them, relationships with the childen can get better and closer. Lynette A. Cultural Issues in Parenting Examines how parents can support children’s cultural differences, including differences in customs, beliefs, sexual orientation, and gender identity, and why that is important to healthy growth and development. [Also available in Spanish] Grief & Loss in the Care System Charley Joyce, LICSW, discusses grief and loss related to removal and placement of a child, and how grief and loss impacts the child, birth parents, and foster caregivers. [Also available in Spanish] Share this with friends. Link to share: At the end of this course, you will be able to: identify the 4 types of attachment patterns identify how insecure attachment affects child behavior understand the effects of separation and loss on attachment 4 credit hours, $20.00 per person