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**Summary: Complicated Grief and Attachment by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes** [Watch the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0duJ33ymig) **Outline Summary:** 1. **Introduction**   - Presenter: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes   - Topic: Complicated Grief and Attachment   - Objectives: Define complicated grief, explore the overlap with trauma, identify risk factors, and explore tasks for successful grief resolution. 2. **Definitions**   - **Loss**: Change that includes being without someone or something, focusing on primary attachment relationships.   - **Secondary Loss**: Results from a primary loss, e.g., emotional unavailability of a caregiver due to substance abuse or depression.   - **Grief**: Reaction to loss encompassing physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual dimensions.   - **Trauma**: Any situation causing extreme distress, not necessarily PTSD-level. 3. **Primary Attachment Relationship**   - Forms between 0-18 months, critical up to age 5.   - Disruptions can have lasting psychological and phy