After this course you'll be able to:

(1 hour to complete)

  • Appreciate the way relationships and attachment contribute to the organization of the brain

  • Identify protective factors and practices that contribute to healthy attachment

  • Understand the factors that can influence a caregiver’s ability to create and promote healthy attachment

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Chapter 1: Introduction to Attachment

    • Have you taken the Academy Pre-Survey?

    • Welcome!

    • Introduction to Relational Health

    • Opening Activity: Parenthood Lost

    • Relational Health

    • Relational Theories & Science

    • Check for Understanding: Relational Theories & Science
  • 2

    Chapter 2: Healthy Relationships

    • Activity: Cultural Differences in Familial Relationships

    • Attunement and Connection

    • Download: The benefits of Relational Health

    • Barriers to Healthy Relationships

    • Supporting Healthy Relationships

    • Check for Understanding: Relational Health
  • 3

    Chapter 3: Attachment and Child Welfare

    • Connectedness and Child Welfare

    • Activity- Video and Discussion Post

    • Handout: Barriers & Strategies to Promote Relational Health

    • Check for Understanding: Barriers & Strategies

  • 4

    Chapter 4: Supporting Alice

    • Handout: Meet Alice and her Family

    • Activity: Identifying A Support Network With Alice & Kathy

    • Activity: Moment of Reflection

  • 5

    Chapter 5: Closing

    • Closing Thoughts & Review

    • Course Evaluation

Social Work Certificate in Child Welfare Services

This course is a part of a certificate within the Child Welfare Academy

Learn more here

Instructor

Child Welfare Academy Coordinator

Cassandra Mendoza

Cassandra has multiple years of experience working with Black and Latinx families in urban settings, families with child welfare involvement, and children living in under-resourced communities. Cassandra has experience providing academic tutoring and socio-emotional counseling to public school students in Chicago, IL. Prior to joining The Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing, Cassandra was a bilingual, mental health therapist and crisis specialist providing services to families that have experienced violence and youth and caregivers involved in the child welfare system in Chicago, IL and Los Angeles County.