Efficacy of an Attachment-based Intervention in Residential Care (CareME)

"CareME program was planned to integrate 12 group session (90 minutes), implemented fortnightly during a 6-month period, and facilitated by two psychologists and expert researchers on attachment framework. Components included psychoeducation (description of core concepts such as attachment, secure base, safe haven, emotion regulation, mentalization, trauma, and discussion of research on professional caregiving in YRC); experiential and relational exercises (roleplay; cases discussion, film script discussion).~The program has 7 moduli: (i) adolescents' pain-based behaviors and attachment theoretical lens; (ii) adolescence and main developmental challenges (iii) setting rules and limits; (iv) trust \& secure base (figures and environment); (v) professionals' stories of attachment \& caregiving (vi) personal and structural characteristics that prevent a secure caregiving environment and (vii) professional impairment and strategies promoting healthy secure base provision."