Attachment-based Practice with Children, Adolescents and Families: Understanding Strategies and Promoting Positive Change

A practical, user-friendly, integrative guide to contemporary attachment-based practice for professionals working with children, adolescents, and families.Over recent decades, attachment theory has come to be seen as fundamental to understanding not only childhood development and how people survive and grow, but also the capacity of partners, parents and carers to offer safe and consistent care, particularly under difficult conditions. Attachment-based Practice with Children, Adolescents and Families integrates attachment theory with other key concepts to explore the ways in which we understand and respond to troubled young people. Drawing on a range of disciplines and combining theory, practical guidance and illustrated case studies, the authors present an attachment-based, integrative, biopsychosocial approach to working with individuals and families that is designed to promote improved outcomes for all involved. Read more