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Trauma, attachment, and family permanence : fear can stop you loving / edited by Caroline Archer and Alan Burnell for family futures.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Attachment behavior in children.
- Families--Psychological aspects.
- Families.
- Psychic trauma in children.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : J. Kingsley, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Fostered and adopted children can present major challenges resulting from unresolved attachment issues and early traumatic experiences. This book provides a variety of complementary perspectives on the needs of these children and their families, focusing on ways of integrating attachment theory and developmental psychology into effective practice.
- Contents:
- Trauma, Attachment and Family Permanence; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Tapestry of Colours; Part I State of Play: Current Theory and Practice; 1. Adoption and Permanence Today: A Discussion; 2. The 'Coherent Narrative': Realism, Resources and Responsibility in Family Permanence; 3. Setting up the Loom: Attachment Theory Revisited; 4. Weft and Warp: Developmental Impact of Trauma and Implications for Healing; 5. Clinical Concepts and Caregiving Contexts: A Consultant's Perspective; 6. 'A Hard Day's Night': A Parent's Perspective
- Part II State of the Art: Theory into PracticeJenny and Marty's Story; 7. Assessment: A Multidisciplinary Approach; 8. Rationale for the Intensive Programme; 9. The Drama of Adoption; 10. The Drama Unfolds; 11. Contact as Therapy; 12. Holding the Fort; 13. Hands on Help; 14. Difficulty with Learning or Learning to be Difficult?; Part III State, Community and Family: The Future; 15. Weaving Together the Threads: Families with Futures; Appendix: Family Futures Case Planning Matrix; Glossary; References; Contributors; Subject Index; Author Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283904278
- 1283904276
- 9781417501830
- 1417501839
- 9781846423871
- 1846423872
- OCLC:
- 567981259
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