Infant Mental Health: The Role of Attachment

North Dakota Professionals Coupon Code: NDKIDS

The earliest relationships in a child’s life can shape how they experience safety, regulate emotions, build relationships, and navigate the world. Understanding attachment gives clinicians and caregivers a powerful lens for supporting healthy development from the very beginning.

Join us for an engaging exploration of infant mental health and relational development—and gain practical tools you can bring directly into your work with young children and families.

You’ll learn how to:

• Understand Bowlby’s foundational attachment theory and why the first three years are so important

• Recognize the behavioral patterns, core beliefs, and potential long-term impacts associated with the four attachment styles

• Identify how secure attachment can support resilience, self-esteem, problem-solving, and emotional well-being

• Use practical strategies such as emotional attunement, co-regulation, relational repair, and intentional play to strengthen caregiver-child relationships

• Explore evidence-based approaches for addressing attachment disruptions, including Circle of Security, Theraplay, Attachment & Biobehavioral Catch-Up (ABC), and Filial Therapy

Turn attachment theory into practical, meaningful care.

Whether you work directly with infants and young children or support the families who care for them, this course will help you better understand the power of early relationships and apply strategies that promote healthier development.

Enroll today and strengthen the relational foundations that can support children for a lifetime.

This effort is associated with North Dakota’s Pediatric Mental Health Care Access (PMHCA) Grant, funded by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), administered through the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services – Behavioral Health Division.