Maintaining Secure Attachment While Disciplining Misbehavior

Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Could you use a few new strategies to help your child improve misbehavior? Listen to this conversation with Dr. Casey Call, the Associate Director of Education at the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at TCU and Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the TCU Department of Psychology. She will help us understand how to maintain connection while correcting challenging behaviors. In this episode, we discuss: Why and how should parents and caregivers work toward secure attachment with kids impacted by trauma? What does it mean when we say we are rewiring the child’s brain for connection? What is the purpose of discipline? How can parents and caregivers set a firm foundation of secure attachment if they also need to correct misbehavior or inappropriate behavior? Why do traditional or punishment-based disciplinary approaches not work for children impacted by trauma? Why do kids impacted by trauma tend to respond better (meaning an improvement in behavior) to discipline that guides them to think about their choices and consequences? How can parents and caregivers maintain a safe, loving connection with firmness and kindness while still holding the goal of retraining a behavior? In this process, what does it mean to share our power? What is the “IDEAL” approach? What is a re-do? Why is it so powerful for re-training? What are a few practical ways that parents and caregivers can maintain attachment during these disciplinary or re-teaching processes? What are some of the common behaviors that drive parents crazy? How can parents and caregivers maintain the intensity and pace of disciplining a child who has been impacted by trauma, without burning out? Support the show Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by . We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content: Weekly podcasts Weekly articles/blog posts Resource pages on all aspects of family building

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Maintaining Secure Attachment While Disciplining Misbehavior is an episode from Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care by Creating a Family.

This episode is 47:59 long.

This episode was published on Apr 22, 2026.

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