Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC)

A flexible, component-based intervention for children, adolescents, and their caregiving system who have experienced complex trauma.

About This Program

Attachment, Regulation, and Competency is organized around three primary domains and identifies 8 key treatment targets:

Attachment
Focuses on strengthening the caregiving system surrounding children through an emphasis on three primary targets:

1. Support caregivers in recognizing, understanding, and managing their emotional and physiological responses
2. Enhance rhythm and reciprocity in the caregiver-child relationship and help deepen the understanding of behavior
3. Build effective, trauma-informed responses

Regulation
Emphasizes awareness and skill in identifying, understanding, and managing internal experience through:

4. Supporting a development in awareness and understanding of feelings, body states, and associated thoughts and behaviors
5. Increased capacity to tolerate and manage physiological and emotional experience
6. Enhanced tolerance for and skill in building relational connection

Competency
Competency goals include:

7. Increasing opportunity for choice and empowerment, and skill in recognizing choice points and in effective decision-making
8. Identification and exploration of a range of aspects of self and identity, and building coherence through the development of narrative around key life experiences, including traumatic exposures

Eligibility & Fees

Most insurance is accepted. Learn more about billing and insurance.

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No person shall be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination in the Agency’s programs or activities on the grounds of race, color, national origin, or disability. Provision will be made to assist clients who are members of national origin minority groups with language differences. Additionally, provision will be made to assist clients who are hearing impaired or have other special needs.