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This book offers a range of imaginative and engaging play-based activities, designed to help vulnerable young children forge safe attachments with their caregivers. By engaging children in these activities, parents, caregivers and practitioners can help the children in their care gain a sense of belonging and develop their self-esteem.
List of contents
Introduction Social and Emotional Development Trauma Mirroring Object Permanence Cause and Effect Physical Development and Sensory Integration Language and Speech Development Loss and Separation Transition Identity Glossary of Terms Bibliography Appendices
About the author
Joan Moore is an author, dramatherapist, play therapist and adoption support provider with foster, adoptive and kinship families. She works mainly with families in their home, applying her "Theatre of Attachment" model of life history therapy. Joan has written several books and peer-reviewed articles. Her doctoral study at Leeds Beckett University on using story and drama to support these placements is described in "Narrative and Dramatic Approaches to Children’s Life Story with Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families", published by Routledge. She supervises creative arts therapists and delivers training. Having a background in social work with children and families and Youth Justice, Joan has undertaken Expert Witness Assessments of siblings, children’s care needs, parents, and assessments of prospective adoptive parents, foster carers and kinship carers.
Summary
This book offers a range of imaginative and engaging play-based activities, designed to help vulnerable young children forge safe attachments with their caregivers. By engaging children in these activities, parents, caregivers and practitioners can help the children in their care gain a sense of belonging and develop their self-esteem.
