Speakers/ Conference
Brisch, Karl Heinz (München/Germany & Salzburg/Austria)
Attachment-oriented milieu therapy in inpatient psychotherapy: The group as healing attachment experience
Children who have experienced severe trauma in infancy and early childhood are generally not able to function well in groups. Because they have difficulty controlling affect and behaving empathetically, they often feel provoked by other children.
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Butrón, Jaquelin (El Alto/Bolivia)
The importance of group attachments in preventing the abuse of children and adolescents
Violence against children and adolescents of both sexes is very widespread in El Ato, Bolivia, and is viewed as "normal." According to information from the ombudsman’s office, 83% of children and adolescents have experienced violence, and 23% have experienced sexualized violence.
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Eckstein, Yvonne (München/Germany)
Attachment-oriented milieu therapy in inpatient psychotherapy: The group as healing attachment experience
Children who have experienced severe trauma in infancy and early childhood are generally not able to function well in groups. Because they have difficulty controlling affect and behaving empathetically, they often feel provoked by other children.
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Epstein, Orit Badouk (London/UK)
From proximity seeking to relationship seeking Working towards separation from the abusive group
As with all insecure attachment styles, the clinical work with the preoccupied/disorganised clients often entails the gathering of internal and external records of the accumulative traumatic events and dysregulatory experiences, sustained early on in life by their care givers that can only give rise to forces that interfere with the client’s movement towards mental wellbeing.
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Espelage, Dorothy (Gainesville/Florida/USA)
Peer group influences on aggression, bullying, and prosocial behaviors during early to late adolescence.
" Peers are an integral aspect of adolescent development and therefore the influence of peer relationships serves as an important area of exploration when considering youth behaviors. In this paper, a series of cross-sectional and longitudinal social network analyses of friendship patterns among adolescents will be discussed..."
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Knafo, Hannah (New York/ USA)
Preventing child maltreatment. A report on the Group Attachment-Based Intervention (GABI) in the Bronx (New York)
The primary goal of GABI is promote secure parent-child attachment and to prevent the development of disorganized attachment patterns in children. The development of GABI has been primarily informed by attachment theory as well as research on the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE; Felitti et al., 1998).
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Shimony, Michal (Herzliya/ Israel)
Attachment theory and group processes: The association between attachment style and group-related representations, goals, memories, and functioning
According to attachment theory, the availability of caring, supportive relationship partners, beginning in infancy, is extremely important for the development of a sense of attachment security (confidence that one is competent and lovable and that others will be available and supportive when needed), which in turn fosters the development of stable self-esteem, constructive coping strategies, maintenance of mental health, and formation of mutually satisfying relationships throughout life.
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Romero Velasco, Katrin, (Munich/Germany)
Attachment-oriented milieu therapy in inpatient psychotherapy: The group as healing attachment experience
Children who have experienced severe trauma in infancy and early childhood are generally not able to function well in groups. Because they have difficulty controlling affect and behaving empathetically, they often feel provoked by other children.
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Schultz-Venrath, Ulrich (Bergisch-Gladbach & Witten-Herdecke/Germany)
Resources or catastrophes in groups – What promotes or inhibits Mentalizing in group psychotherapies?
Psychodynamic group psychotherapies show verifiable equal or better efficacy for the most psychic and psychosomatic diseases in short term- and long term-therapies than individual psychodynamic or behavioral therapies.
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Simoni, Heidi (Zürich/Switzerland)
The world of young children: even infants and toddlers play and learn together. What do they need from us to do so?
Insights from developmental psychology are in line with early education concepts that view the smallest children as subjects of their development and that view the world of small children as relevant.
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Stetten, Lina (Bielefeld/Germany)
The process of radicalization in the context of extremist groups.
"Not only in Germany, but also in the whole world, people were terrified by events such as the amok, school shootings and terroristic acts. These are highly expressive acts of violence that, in addition to their direct consequences for victims, also cause general feeling of endangerment for the whole society. This feeling of threat anchors especially in the unpredictability of these kind of acts..."
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von Weiler, Julia (Berlin/Germany)
The digital umbilical cord to the world and its significance for attachment and relationships in groups.
Never has society been as permeated by technology as it is today. Thanks to smart phones, social networks, and Messenger, we are all networked as never before, such as in WhatsApp groups, Empire: Four Kingdoms alliances, and Facebook group chats. The possibilities for connecting digitally give us power and support.
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