Connect: A Trauma-Informed and Attachment-Based Program for Parents and Caregivers

Variety of Behavioral Health Settings

A structured 10-session manualized program delivered in a group format to parents and caregivers of preteens (ages 8-12) and teens (ages 13-19) with serious behavioral and internalizing problems. Connect aims to promote parental reflective function, emotion regulation, sensitive care, and parent-child mutuality and cooperation. Sessions introduce attachment principles that specifically focus on adolescence and parenting and include experiential and emotion-focused role-plays and reflection activities. The program integrates a trauma-informed, strength-based, and collaborative approach to promoting the development of new parenting skills and parent-child attachment security.  

Focus Population
Families, Parents, Caregivers, Adolescents
Target Problems or Risk Factors
Conduct/Behavior, Mental Health Problems
Level of Intervention
Selective, Indicated
Settings in Which Program Can Be Delivered
Behavioral Health Organization or Agency, Community, Medical or Health Setting, including residential treatment centers, School, Virtual/Online
Latinos in Participant Samples
No Information
Type of Program
Generic
Registry
CEBC
Strength of Evidentiary Support
2-Star (⭐⭐) CEBC - Disruptive Behavior Treatment (Child and Adolescent), 2-Star (⭐⭐) CEBC - Parent Training Programs that Address Behavior Problems in Children and Adolescents
Cost of the Program
No
Availability of the program in Spanish and/or Portuguese
Spanish
Registry URL
https://www.cebc4cw.org/program/connect-an-attachment-based-program-for-parents-and-caregivers/
Contact Information
Marlene Moretti, Ph.D.
Simon Fraser University
Email: morretti@sfu.ca
Website
http://www.connectattachmentprograms.org