Attachment and Relational Resilience Across the Lifespan

A compelling and comprehensive, up-to-date course on attachment, based on a multi-decade synthesis of research through the transdisciplinary view of Interpersonal Neurobiology.

Course Overview

Explore attachment and the development of the self based on a synthesis of research across disciplines and decades

This course will explore how our sense of connection and belonging shapes how we feel about ourselves, relate to others, and engage with life. You will gain an in-depth understanding of the influence of attachment security on our sense of self, personality, states of mind and other developmental facets of our lives across the lifespan. This course will consider the developmental implications of attachment while highlighting key findings in the history of attachment research as well as exciting new practical applications  of these discoveries.

This course will provide the concepts and practices allowing each person to increase attachment security and access more adaptive, health-promoting and integrative states of mind. 

Utilize IPNB to expand your understanding of attachment

This course will bridge the scientific advances in the field of attachment research and fundamental principles of the field of interpersonal neurobiology. From this expanded perspective, secure attachment is understood as emerging from a relational field that is integrative, while non-secure attachment patterns manifest as states of mind that are strategies of adaptation emerging from non-integrative relational communication. Non-secure states of mind, in turn, can be seen to have blocks to the natural process of integration. Each non-secure attachment strategy is created from and in turn creates unique impairments to the integration of the self, mind, brain and relationships. This course will identify specific blockages to integration and provide a roadmap to facilitate integrative transformation.

Learn to cultivate relational resilience and build security

Relational resilience is an essential skill that allows us to tolerate uncertainty, repair ruptures, and maintain equilibrium in the face of challenges. This applies to the many different relational systems we live within, including personal, professional, public, and planetary systems. Providing the tools to cultivate relational resilience in the various systems in which we live, this course empowers participants by offering the essential concepts and skills to build integrative relationships in the many relationships of our lives. 

Course Overview

This course will explore how relationships shape our development and well-being across the lifespan. We will highlight the central role that attachment plays in shaping our inner experience and social relationships. This will include an in-depth view of how attachment impacts the development of our sense of self, mental states, and personality. We will review in-depth attachment  research and theory and discuss clinical implications and offer practical applications. This will include expanding definitions of attachment, dispelling misconceptions, and outlining a clear pathway to integrative transformation toward security. 

From an interpersonal neurobiology lens, attachment can be understood as relational integration. Many of the challenges that arise from non-secure attachment patterns involve impaired integration of the self, brain, mind, and relationships. We will explore the specific cause and impact of non-secure attachment for each of these domains. Further, we will explain the corresponding mechanisms of integrative change that enhance functioning in these areas. You will learn to utilize the flexible nature of neuroplasticity and the power of the mind and relationships to cultivate more integrative states of being. 

We will also explore the notion of relational resilience and the role it can play in facilitating integration in the many relational systems we are a part of — personal, professional, public and planetary. The stability of these systems depends on the ability to maintain equilibrium even in the face of challenges. The skills that promote relational resilience can be learned across the lifespan. This course will provide the practical tools necessary to increase the ability to navigate relational challenges with integrative harmony and a sense of wholeness in life. 

Here are some highlights of what you will learn:

Sample Lecture - Integrative Transformation

Course Details

10.5+

Hours of Course Video

10.5

Homestudy CE Credits

Scientific Foundations of Attachment

Latest scientific underpinnings of attachment from an interpersonal neurobiology perspective

Assessment and treatment strategies to build Security

Implement a methodology for conducting a clinical assessment to inform treatment planning and understand the scientific mechanisms of change that can be used to enhance attachment security.

Our Students

Who Takes this Course?

This course is designed for mental health practitioners.

Meet Your Teacher

Dr. Dan Siegel

Dan Siegel is the executive director of the Mindsight Institute and founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA, where he was also co-principal investigator of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and clinical professor at the School of Medicine.

An award-winning educator, Dan is the author of five New York Times bestsellers and other books which have been translated into over forty languages. He is the founding editor of the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, and has overseen the publication of over one hundred textbooks in this transdisciplinary framework focusing on the mind and mental health.

A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dan completed his postgraduate training at UCLA specializing in pediatrics and adult, adolescent, and child psychiatry.  He was trained in attachment research and narrative analysis through a National Institute of Mental Health research training fellowship focusing on how relationships shape our autobiographical ways of making sense of our lives and influence our development across the lifespan.

Student Testimonials

- Firoozeh; Psychotherapist & LCSW; Austin, TX, USA

"[Attachment and Relational Resilience Across the Lifespan] not only provided me with practical tools to use in my professional practice, but it also helped me in my personal parenting for my own child. What absolutely surpassed my expectations, however, was the transformative experience of learning about intraconnectness. This idea has stayed with me and helped to change my mindset, not only professionally and as a parent, but personally with my own inner balance to be able to live a more harmonious life."
Catie Heath
Child and Family Therapist
Edmonds, WA, USA
"I was very impressed with the content and presentation of [Attachment and Relational Resilience Across the Lifespan]. I really appreciated the length of videos and the way they broke the material into small chunks that I could learn and internalize more readily. The detailed breakdown of the Adult Attachment Interview over multiple sessions greatly improved my understanding of this tool [and] my confidence in using [it] clinically, giving me an immediate and concrete takeaway. I also found the study guide to be very helpful for both taking notes and reviewing sections between viewings. I would definitely consider taking similar courses in the future and would recommend this course to others."
Becky Schomaker
LMFT (Trauma and Early Childhood Mental Health)
Glendale, CA, USA

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On-Demand Option

  • 10.5 Hours of Course Video

  • 10.5 Homestudy CE Credits

  • Unlimited Access to the Content

Eight payments of

$59/week

Continuing Education Credit (CEC) Information

This course is designed for mental health practitioners.
This program offers 10.5 homestudy CE credits for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.

  • Please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page for full CEC Provider information, including license applicability, attendance requirements, and cancellation and grievance policies.
  • For those licensed by a different board, please contact your licensing board directly to verify that the credits offered by the Mindsight Institute will be accepted. The Mindsight Institute does not confirm the applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed on our CEC information page.
  • Credit is awarded for recorded instructional time only and does not include optional live Q&A sessions, if available.
  • The SCA is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16887 for 10.5 contact hours.

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Join Today

On-Demand Option

  • 10.5 hours of Course Video

  • 10.5 Homestudy CE Credits

  • Unlimited Access to the Content

Eight payments of

$59/week