Attachment, Trauma and Resilience: Therapeutic Caring for Children

Kate and Brian Cairns are social workers and trainers by profession. They are also parents. Along with their birth children, the Cairns family fostered 12 children over a 25-year period, who remain part of their family group.

This is a special book, compassionate and highly readable. The authors' commitment to traumatised children and to helping families care for them shines through as they draw upon the wealth of their personal and professional experience to offer a compelling insight into the realities of family life with children who have lived through overwhelming stress.

Anyone caring or working with children separated from their families will find much in this remarkable book that is inspiring, illuminating and affirmative.