Child and Adult Attachment under Threat

Child and Adult Attachment under Threat

Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg (Portugal)

Facilitated by: Haline Schendan (UK)

🗓️ Day 2 of an 11-Day Seminar Series:Families in Context of War and Social Conflict: Through the Lens of Attachment

🌍 A Transformational Seminar Series for:

• Therapists
• Mental Health Professionals
• Humanitarian Workers

This powerful series explores how attachment theory provides insight into the impact of war, displacement, and social conflict on individuals and families.

✅ In This Session, You Will:

• Learn trauma-informed, attachment-based frameworks
• Build culturally sensitive tools for high-stress environments
• Understand the effects of displacement, violence, and instability on family dynamics
• Equip yourself to support resilience and connection in the face of crisis

🕒 Schedule:

• 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM: Lecture
• 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM: Break
• 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Facilitated Discussion Group

🎙️ About this event:

In this session, the development of attachment over the life span will be discussed, including the differences between secure, insecure and disorganized / unresolved attachment in children and adults. The global distributions of attachment are reviewed based on thousands of children and adults are reviewed, with attention to contextual factors such as demographic risk and, in the case of adults, war-related PTSS. The consequences of war-related stress for parenting are serious, and seem to play a mediating role in child psychopathology and social problems during and after war exposure.

🎙️ About the speaker:

Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg is professor at ISPA, Lisbon and San Sebastian University, Chile, and also a visiting research associate at the Center for Attachment Research, The New School for Social Research, New York, and at Stockholm University, Sweden. In the past 30 years she has done studies on parenting and child development with a focus on attachment and emotion regulation in parents and their children. Her academic interests include the interplay between nature and nurture, the effects of institutionalization and de-institutionalization on child development, hormonal correlates of parenting, in particular in fathers, and interventions. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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