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LIVE STREAM: May 29, 2026 from 8:30am – 4:00pm (Winnipeg, MB) Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
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May 29, 2026 | Day Three
Working with Stuck Kids: An Attachment Based Relational Perspective
With over 40 years of experience working in schools, it ads become clear that there are no easy answers for teaching and working with students who have challenging behaviours. The construct of psychological immaturity (not everyone grows up as they get older) has been with us as an intuitive concept for ages, but only recently has developmental science advanced to a state where it can now yield effective strategies and interventions to address learning and behavioural challenges.
Rather than asking, “What can we do to fix this student?” we must, instead develop an understanding of why children get stuck, creating a situation which results in many kinds of challenging behaviours. This understanding comes to us through the neuroscience of development and the research on the effect of adverse childhood experiences (complex trauma) on development, learning and behaviour. It is anchored the attachment-based developmental paradigm developed by Gordon Neufeld, PhD, which considers the keys to human development: maturation, vulnerability and attachment and the role of emotions. This presentation will start with theory and then move on to present a variety of attachment-base and developmentally friendly interventions that have been implemented with success in schools across Quebec. Using this knowledge, it also becomes apparent that some of our “tried and true” interventions are not only ineffective, but they can, at times, make things worse for our students. An Intervention Continuum will be presented that proposes a number of in-class and in-school interventions that are preventative in nature, require minimal additional resources and are applicable at both the Elementary and Secondary levels.
Education and Clinical Professionals: All education and mental health or healthcare professionals who work with children or youth including, but not limited to K–12 Classroom Teachers, School Counsellors, Learning Assistance/Resource Teachers, School Administrators, School Paraprofessionals including Special Education Assistants, Classroom Assistants and Childcare Workers • All other professionals who support behavioural challenges and complex learning needs including but not limited to: Nurses, Social Workers, Psychologists, Clinical Counsellors, Family Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Addiction Counsellors, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Probation Officers and Community Police Officers.
Eva de Gosztonyi, MA, is a psychologist who has worked for over 45 years in schools across Canada. For 22 years she was the Coordinator of the Centre of Excellence for Behaviour Management, a support to the ten English School Boards of Quebec, helping adults in the school setting provide effective interventions for students with behavioural challenges. Since retiring she has continued to share her expertise with schools in Canada, including First Nations schools and communities, the US, New Zealand, and Singapore. The interventions that she suggests are guided by neuroscience, are trauma-informed and trauma-responsive, and they are attachment-based and developmentally friendly. These interventions have made a difference in the schools in Quebec where they have been used successfully for many years. Eva is on Faculty at the Neufeld Institute and is an authorized presenter of the Neufeld paradigm.
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