PATH Videos

Programs · PATH

PATH (Promoting Attachment & Trauma Healing) is ATN’s framework for therapeutic parenting. These videos help caregivers and professionals put PATH tenets into practice.

  • Caregivers
  • Professionals
  • Therapeutic parenting
The PATH framework

What PATH covers

ATN developed PATH after reviewing the parenting strategies taught to families of traumatized children. Successful therapeutic parenting programs share these tenets:

1
Safety Actual safety for everyone in the family, and felt safety for the child.
2
Structure and nurture High structure and high nurture, held in careful balance.
3
Connected parenting Looking under behavior to what it is communicating.
4
Intentional parenting Knowing why you are using a specific tool or strategy.
5
Long-term perspective Self-care so caregivers can stay regulated.

Read the Therapeutic Parenting overview