In High Schools, Relationships Are Crucial
Awareness of attachment impacts key decision-making for high school students, including choices about consent and drug use. As students navigate adolescence, school personnel and parents play a crucial role in shaping their emotional development and relationships. Creating emotionally safe environments is essential for their academic success, emotional well-being, and positive social interactions.
The Impact of Attachment Styles in High School
Attachment—the emotional bond formed with primary caregivers in early childhood—shapes how individuals relate to others and manage stress throughout their lives. These early attachment experiences continue to influence how high school students handle peer relationships, academic challenges, and emotional regulation.
Students with secure attachment tend to feel confident in social settings and academic pursuits, while those with insecure attachment may struggle with trust, fear of rejection, or emotional dysregulation under pressure.
Awareness of Attachment Styles Matters for All
For school personnel: Understanding attachment helps provide personalized support, build trust, and foster emotional regulation.
- For Students: Knowing their attachment style helps manage stress, improve relationships, and boost academic performance.
- For Parents: Recognizing attachment style helps reinforce emotional safety at home.
When school personnel, parents, and students collaborate, they create a stronger foundation for emotional and academic growth.
Direct and Indirect Impacts on 9-12 CA Health Standards:
Workshops and Webinars
Educator Workshop
Understanding Attachment Styles to Enhance Student Relationships
By introducing attachment styles, teachers can leverage new insights to improve student-teacher relationships, offering strategies to foster secure attachments in the classroom.
Parent Webinar
Understanding Attachment Theory for Supporting Teens
Parents develop a deep understanding of attachment theory and its impact on adolescent development by learning about attachment styles and strategies to foster secure bonds with their teens, promoting healthy relationships and emotional well-being.
Counselors & Mental Health Clinician Workshops
Understanding Attachment Styles to Enhance Teacher-Student Relationships
This workshop equips counselors and mental health clinicians with valuable insights into attachment styles and their impact on student relationships. Participants will explore strategies to cultivate secure attachments within the school environment, ultimately fostering stronger connections between students and staff.
Secure Connections:
Student Workshop Series
This workshop series empowers teens to understand and navigate their relationships through the lens of Attachment Theory. Participants explore diverse attachment styles and learn how to develop and sustain an earned secure attachment style, resulting in improved overall wellbeing.
Workshop 1: Navigating Relationships: Understanding Attachment Dynamics
Workshop 2: Attachment Core Wounds: Moving from Reactive to Reflective
Workshop 3: Attachment Style: Changing Relationship Beliefs About Self and Others
Workshop 4: Empower Your Relationships: Enhancing Connection Through Expressing Needs
Workshop 5: Establishing and Enforcing Boundaries
Workshop 6: Conflict Redefined: Embracing Secure Attachment Strategies
Workshop 7: Brave Hearts: Embracing Vulnerability
Workshop 8: Towards Earned Secure Attachment
A La Carte Workshops & Webinars
Student Workshops
Nurturing Self-Relationship for Teens
Teens are empowered to build a healthy self-relationship by understanding attachment styles, practicing mindfulness, and embracing self-compassion.
Building Self-Esteem: Understanding Attachment Styles and Tailored Strategies
By developing a deeper understanding of how attachment styles influence their self-esteem, teens are equipped with personalized strategies to support healthy development.
Educator Workshop
Understanding Psychological Reactance in Students Across Attachment Styles
Educators gain insights into attachment styles and psychological reactance, exploring their impact on student-teacher interactions and classroom dynamics and learning strategies to reduce reactance and build positive student relationships.
Counselors & Mental Health Clinician Workshops
Understanding Psychological Reactance in Students Across Attachment Styles
In this session, mental health professionals will delve into the concepts of attachment styles and psychological reactance, examining how these factors influence student interactions and classroom dynamics. Participants will learn effective strategies to mitigate reactance and promote positive relationships, enhancing both student wellbeing and academic success.
Implementation
4-Year Timeline
The most effective approach for teens is to integrate the Secure Connections series throughout their high school years (grades 9-12). This fosters a more comprehensive transformation of relationships within the school community.
2-Year Timeline
Teen Workshop Series
Foundations Workshop Series
