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The Power of Relationships: Nurturing Attachment in ECE
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Healthy growth and development of children requires the presence of a invested adult who assumes responsibility for the child’s well being and who meets the child’s needs in a warm and responsive manner. Because many children spend most of their waking hours in out of home care, it is critically important that early childhood professionals understand how healthy relationships are developed and sustained in the childcare environment.
This course will discuss the key ingredients for helping children develop secure attachment relationships, the four basic types of attachment and how to create a relation-ally rich childcare environment for all children.

Module 1
- Introduction
Module 2
- Lesson One: Caregivers and Attachment
- Lesson Two: Serve and Return Relationships
- Lesson Three: Attachment and Learning
- Lesson Four: Attachment and Self Awareness
- Lesson Five: Attachment and Behavior
Module 3
- Lesson One: Key Ingredients for Secure Attachment Relationships
- Lesson Two: The Power of Being Wanted
- Lesson Three: Sense of Felt Safety
- Lesson Four: Availability
- Lesson Five: Attunement
- Lesson Six: Play
- Lesson Seven: Dependence
- Lesson Eight: Ere and Repair
- Lesson Nine: Value and Preciousness
- Lesson Ten: The Child’s View of Others
- Lesson Eleven: Characteristics of the Secure Infant
- Lesson Twelve: Characteristics of the Securely Attached Child
Module 4
- Lesson One: Insecure Attachment Relationships
- Lesson Two: Role Reversal
- Lesson Three: Helicopter Parents
- Lesson Four: Internal Working Model of the Ambivalent Child
- Lesson Five: The Ambivalent Child And Others
- Lesson Six: The Ambivalent Baby
- Lesson Seven: Characteristics of the Ambivalent Child
Module 5
- Lesson One: Characteristics of the Avoidant Parent
- Lesson Two: The Avoidant Child’s Internal Working Model of Self and others
- Lesson Three: The Avoidant Baby
- Lesson Four: Characteristics of the Avoidant Child
Module 6
- Lesson One: Characteristics of the Disorganized Parent
- Lesson Two: The Disorganized Child’s Internal Working Model
- Lesson Three: The Disorganized Child’s View of Others
- Lesson Four: The Disorganized Infant
- Lesson Five: The Disorganized Child
Module 7
- Lesson One: Programmatic Implications
- Lesson Two: Implications for the Environment
Module 8
- Lesson One: Practical Strategies for Infants and Toddlers
- Lesson Two: Practical Strategies for Three-to-Five Year Olds
- Conclusion