ATTACHMENT STYLES
This attachment style involves trust, comfort with closeness, and healthy emotional regulation
What is secure attachment
This often increases when a child experiences multiple placements.
What is instability?
Youth in care typically age out at this age in most provinces.
What is 18? (Some services extend to 21)
The emotional response to distressing or harmful events?
What is trauma?
This social factor often prevents people from seeking help.
What is stigma?
A child who avoids closeness and hides emotions is showing this attachment pattern.
What is avoidant attachment
Out-of-home placements may disrupt these important connections, especially for Indigenous youth.
What is cultural or community connections?
Youth aging out often lack support in this essential adult skill area.
What are budgeting, cooking, housing, or life skills?
This cognitive ability is commonly affected by trauma.
What is concentration or learning?
A supportive, consistent caregiver is considered this. It is the opposite of risk factor.
What is a protective factor?
This attachment style develops when caregiving is inconsistent, leading to clinginess and anxiety.
What is ambivalent or resistant attachment?
A common emotional impact of frequent placement changes.
What is difficulty trusting caregivers or adults?
Many youth leaving care are at high risk for this situation involving housing.
What is homelessness?
A child who “checks out” or becomes spaced out when overwhelmed is experiencing this.
What is dissociation?
Community development recognizes that communities can be defined by one of these factors.
Geography, Interest or Identity
This attachment style is linked to frightening, chaotic, or unpredictable caregiving.
What is disorganized attachment?
Give one reason why out-of-home placements can create additional vulnerability.
What is loss of routines, separation from family, identity disruption, or instability?
These supportive adult relationships improve outcomes for aging-out youth.
What are lifelong or stable connections / supportive adults?
Trauma affects more than emotions — name one other domain.
What is physical health, relationships, cognition, or behaviour?
Experiencing lingering feelings of anger, rage, and sadness about the client’s victimization is a common sign of this.
Name one developmental area strongly affected by insecure attachment.
What is emotional regulation, trust, relationships, behaviour, or self-concept?
The practice of keeping children in stable long-term placements is known as this.
What is permanency planning?
Early and ongoing planning for adulthood is known as this.
What is transition planning or future planning?
Repeated trauma in childhood can disrupt the development of this core regulatory system.
What is the stress response system (brain/body regulation)?
Name one role of a social worker working with youth in the justice system
Provide advocacy, support, education, referrals to youth and their families
Collaborating and reporting with others involved in youth's life