2 hours
Description:
Circle of Security Parenting (COS-P) is a relationship-based early intervention program designed to enhance attachment security between parents and children. With increased awareness, parents can choose to respond in ways that promote secure attachment and exploration of the environment. This is a six week course. Each week the class meets for a two-hour session. The overall goals of Circle of Security Parenting (COS-P) are:
- Increase security of attachment of the child to the parent
- Increase parent’s ability to read child’s cues
- Increase empathy in the parent for the child
- Decrease negative attributions of the parent regarding the child’s motivations
- Increase parent’s capacity to self-reflect
- Increase parent’s capacity to pause, reflect, and choose security-promoting caregiving behaviors
- Increase parent’s capacity to regulate stressful emotional states
- Increase parent’s ability to recognize ruptures in the relationship and facilitate repairs
- Increase parent’s capacity to provide comfort when their child is in distress
Target Audience:
Families with children younger than 6 years old in high-risk populations such as a child enrolled in Early Head Start, teen moms, or parents with irritable babies.
