Articles tagged as Attachment

Over a 25-year period Kate and Brian Cairns, along with their three birth children, fostered 12 children ranging in age from four to 15 at the time of joining the family.

How can you define attachment and trauma? And how can early experiences affect children later in life?

This accessible guide helps therapists and social care professionals to develop their skills to support children and families through their life story journey.

What are attachment difficulties? How do they affect children? How can you help? This book provides clear and concise answers to these important questions - and more.

An accessible, pragmatic and transformative guide to a method that has helped thousands of people reclaim their lives.

A simple approach to overcoming loneliness, separation, or loss with an imaginative twist that children easily understand and embrace.

Sounding an important warning bell, "Born for Love" offers practical ideas for combating the negative influences of modern life and fostering positive social change to benefit us all.

John Bowlby and Attachment Theory is still the perfect introduction to attachment for students of psychology, psychiatry, counselling, social work and nursing.

Perfect for social workers, adoption agencies, adoptive parents, foster carers and kinship carers, Life Story Books for Adopted and Fostered Children is a refreshing, innovative and common-sense guide.

The first handbook to provide specific guidance and tools for treating children who have been traumatised by physical and sexual abuse, disaster, divorce, or witnessing violent events.

Ciara grew up on the border in Ireland in the 1980s where community relational conflict and trans-generational trauma was rife. Here, Ciara explains how a creative approach help children and young people express their feelings, and shares some key takeaways from her Live Classroom session.

Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert, Dr Bruce Perry, discuss how healing must begin with a shift to asking 'What happened to you?' rather than 'What's wrong with you?'.