Introduction.1. Patterns of Attachment. 2. The Planned Environment – an organizational representation of a secure base. 3. Ways of Caregiving – working within the frame. 4. Working for Recovery – relational representation of the secure base. 5. Working with Conflict. 6. Working with Anger. 7. Managing Challenging Behaviour. 8. Changing Problem Behaviour. Bibliography. Index.
A guide for childcare professionals to attachment theory; providing practical techniques for caring for children with attachment difficulties
Chris Taylor has over twenty years’ experience as a practitioner and manager working with vulnerable and traumatized children. He is interested in a therapeutic approach to recovery from early trauma that is rooted in attachment theory. Although he continues day by day to manage a small, therapeutic, residential unit, he is actively involved in training residential workers, foster carers, social workers, therapists and managers in an attachment perspective to residential and foster care.
This book explores the impact of attachment difficulties on the
behaviour of young people and offers a therapeutic framework and
approach to care that attempts to address this behaviour. It offers
a valuable resource to practitioners who work directly with young
people, providing them with a strategy and practical tools to
manage difficult behaviour in a way that supports young people and
ensures their recovery
*Practice: Social Work in Action*
this is an excellent easy-to-read resource which can help
practitioners in their work... I would thoroughly recommend Chapter
1 for those interested not just in patterns of attachment but also
the implications of attachment in families where domestic violence
is a feature... this book adds so many extra dimensions to the
understanding of attachment and adds such extra value to the
understanding of problematic attachment behaviours ad their
management that it would be a shame not to have it on your
bookshelf.
*Professional Social Work*
...this is overall an excellent, practical resource for those
caring for children with attachment difficulties, and for the
professionals supporting them.
*Journal of Mental Health*
`An excellent book that is well written, comprehensive and easy to
read. It is full of practical advice and things to make readers
think about attachment difficulties in teenagers...The book makes
special reference to carers working in children's homes and would
make an excellent text for care home workers. However, the book is
not just for those who work in children's homes, as it contains
some excellent practical strategies for parents and carers as well.
There are also chapters on working with anger, working with
conflict and working with challenging behaviour. Highly
recommended.`
*Youth in Mind*
`This book is divided into eight easy to read, well-structure
chapters each prefaced by a list of learning outcomes...Author
Chris Taylor uses his own experience to provide an attachment-based
model for making residential care a supportive environment for
children recovering from the emotional damage done by dysfunctional
families and the care system...This is a balanced and quietly
persuasive text, with an admirable determination to ensure troubled
children receive the highly skilled care they need...I doubt
whether we are even close to having the systems, models and career
structures to make a residential care revival viable, but this book
may prompt us to think again.`
*Children and Young People Now, Jeffrey Coleman, southern England
director, British Association for Adoption and Fostering*
The concise learning outcomes for each chapter make this book an
ideal resource for professional development in the caring field. It
may be tempting for people to go straight to the final chapters on
dealing with behaviours, and it invaluable as a practical handbook;
but it is well worth reading from all the way through as it will
deepen the reader's understanding and empathy for children and
young people with attachment difficulties.
*Foster Care Magazine*
A Practical Guide to Caring for Children and Teenagers with
Attachment Difficulties is an important bridge between attachment
theory and research and providing appropriate care for children who
are most in need. Most importantly, it reminds us that in order for
these children and young people to successfully recover from their
relational traumas, those providing their care must keep in mind
the key concepts of attachment security. The author successfully
utilizes cognitive and behavioural interventions in the context of
attachment, maximizing their effectiveness and demonstrating how
best to care for these children and young people.
*Dan Hughes, Ph.D., Psychologist and author of Building the Bonds
of Attachment, 2nd ed., Attachment-Focused Family Therapy, and
Attachment-Focused Parenting.*
This book provides a wealth of information and practical ideas for
parenting young people who have experienced early trauma and
disrupted attachments. Parents and carers are given a whole
approach to parenting as well as specific ideas for specific
problems, and special reference is made to the often neglected
issue of how to parent children living within children’s homes.
This book is a treasure trove of theory and practical ideas for
foster carers, residential care workers and for the professionals
who are supporting them.
*Kim S. Golding, MSc Clinical Psychology, DClinPsy, Clinical
Psychologist with the Integrated Service for Looked After and
Adopted Children (ISL), Worcester, UK.*
This volume is designed to provide carers with detailed guidance to
help them to understand attachment theory... Taylor offers a
practical and accessible approach, bringing a wealth of experience
to the task of helping carers to enable children with attachment
disorders to achieve more positive, healthy and secure
relationships
with others. Social workers, guardians, psychologists,
psychiatrists and therapists will also benefit from Taylor's
creativity and clarity... This book is well constructed and
successfully achieves its aim of being a very useful and practical
tool for carers. Each chapter sets out learning outcomes, enabling
carers and professionals to employ this text both as a readily
accessible reference and a source of further ideas for care
planning. A Practical Guide for Caring for Children and Teenagers
with Attachment Difficulties fills a gap, offering guidance to
carers and a more focal understanding of relevant issues for
professionals involved in care and family work. We suspect that
this
book will acquire a well-worn look on the book shelf or desk of
many individuals who are regularly asked to provide advice and
support to carers working with vulnerable and traumatised
children.
*Child Abuse Review*
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