Attachment-based Practice with Children, Adolescents and Families - Understanding Strategies and Promoting Positive Change

Over recent decades, attachment theory has come to be seen as fundamental to understanding not only childhood development and how people survive and grow, but also the capacity of partners, parents, and carers to offer safe and consistent care, particularly under difficult conditions. Attachment-based Practice with Children, Adolescents and Families integrates attachment theory with other key concepts to explore the ways in which we understand and respond to troubled young people. Drawing on psychiatry, psychotherapy, social work, clinical psychology, systemic therapy, and multi-modal assessment and intervention, and combining theory, practical guidance, and illustrated case studies, the authors present an attachment-based, integrative, biopsychosocial approach to working with individuals and families that is designed to promote improved outcomes for all involved.

About the author

Clark Baim is a psychotherapist, supervisor, group leader, and consultant. He is President of the British Psychodrama Association, and is on the faculty of the Family Relations Institute. He is the lead author of Attachment-based Practice with Adults (Pavilion, 2011). Lydia Guthrie is a systemic psychotherapist, trainer, group facilitator, and supervisor. From 2008-12 she co-led, with Clark Baim, the UK's community-based sexual offending treatment programmes, run by the Probation Service. Ezra Loh is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Child, Adolescent and Adult Mental Health, with a special interest in attachment and psychotherapy across the lifespan. Satbinder Khaur Bhogal is a Clinical Psychologist, and Clinical Lead for the Personality and Complex Trauma (PACT) Pathway with Forward Thinking Birmingham.

Summary

A practical guide to understanding and responding to troubled young people, building on attachment theory and a series of case studies to create a holistic, integrative, safe and effective approach to helping individuals and families.

Product details

• Authors: Clark Baim, Baim Clark, Lydia Guthrie, Guthrie Lydia, Satbinder Kaur Bhogal, Ezra Loh, Satbinder Kaur Bhogal
• Publisher: Pavilion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Spiral bound
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781803880655
• ISBN: 978-1-80388-065-5
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Social Work, Psychotherapy: child and adolescent, Relating to adolescence / teenage years, Age groups: children, Age groups: adolescents, Relating to childhood