Attachment Theory Books
Attachment Across the Life Cycle
Using contemporary research and clinical data, this book examines the extent to which psychological problems are rooted in early mother/child relations.
Attachment theory for social work practice
This work addresses the needs of social workers in understanding and assessing the nature and origins of disturbed social relationships, and examines issues emerging from and around attachment... (more)
Violent Attachments
Examines the diagnosis of individuals who show physical violence as a manifestation of their emotional attachments. (more)
Pre-Object Relatedness: Earliest Attachment and the Psychoanalytic Situation
Explores the primitive (yet highly complex) emotional world of the infant, a preverbal world that predates memory, symbolic representation, self-reflection and verbal description. With detailed... (more)
Attachment-Focused Family Play Therapy: An Intervention for Children and Adolescents after Trauma
Attachment-Focused Family Play Therapy presents an essential roadmap for therapists working with traumatized youth.
Exploring trauma and attachment through a neurobiological focus, the book lays... (more)
The Little Book of Attachment: Theory to Practice in Child Mental Health
This book both explains and illustrates how the practice of child mental health professionals can be enhanced, whatever their treatment approach, to encourage engagement, resilience and development... (more)
Nurturing Attachments Training Resource: Running Parenting Groups for Adoptive Parents and Foster or Kinship Carers - with Downloadable Materials
Nurturing Attachments Training Resource is a complete group-work programme containing everything you need to run training and support sessions for adoptive parents and foster or kinship carers. Based... (more)
The Cultural Nature of Attachment: Contextualizing Relationships and Development
It is generally acknowledged that attachment relationships are important for infants and young children, but there is little clarity on what exactly constitutes such a relationship. Does it occur... (more)
Attachment Disorders
The concept of attachment disorder has grown in recent years, yet there is considerable confusion among professionals about what constitutes an attachment disorder and how to provide palliative care... (more)