Day-to-day clinical guidance on what to do with all the attachment theory you’ve learned.
Attachment theory is very popular in therapy these days. But what do you as a therapist do with all that theory? How can you use it to make the lives of your clients better?
This book is a hands-on, practical guide to successful attachment-oriented interventions with parents and children who present with a variety of issues, from trauma to depression to anger.
It begins with an understanding of attachment's role in stress regulation and relationships. With the basics examined, the book takes a deep dive into the practicalities of clinical work. The book lays out a detailed behavioral checklist for each attachment pattern (secure, avoidant, ambivalent, disorganized). This checklist provides a rich source of interventions for therapists. The author includes sensory-based interventions and how to use body-based methods. Play that strengthens attachments is also discussed.
Individual chapters present interventions for:
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<li>Children who have attachment issues due to complex trauma, grief, or adoption or custody decisions. The book includes innovate suggestions that range from creating visual treatment plans for children to the scripts or activities within sessions.</li>
<li>Parents with attachment problems, including logistics of when to add children and other family members, and what to do in sessions.</li>
<li>Highly stressed people. The book provides a practical format for communicating with stressed adults and children, especially those with executive dysfunction.</li>
<li>Teens with attachment issues, addressing both connection and independence.</li>
<li>People of faith whose attachment figure is God.</li>
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Overall, the book describes common factors in successful attachment interventions. Written by a leading attachment therapist, this book applies decades of experience with clients empathic yet playful tone. It provides therapists with a range of therapy activities to make use of one of the most important mental health theories of the past quarter century. Chock-full of techniques and scripts for clinicians, the approaches here are practical, positive, and easy-to-implement.

Promoting Healthy Attachments: Hands-on Techniques to Use with Your Clients

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gray, Deborah D.

Psychology & Counseling

W.W.Norton&Company

Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents by Deborah D. Gray. 2002 Hardcover Edition. Condition: New

Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Perspectives Pr

Packed full of great ideas for fun games and activities, this book encourages positive attachments between a parent or carer and their child.
 When it comes to choosing the best games to play with children who have difficulties attaching, it is often hard to know how to play with a purpose. This book contains fun, age-appropriate games along with an explanation of why they matter. All the games included are designed for specific age ranges, from infants to older children, and help to address particular needs in children that are known to affect attachment, including fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. It provides an easy-to-understand description of attachment and reveals the crucial role that play has in forming attachments. 
 Written for parents and carers, as well as for use by professionals, it is full of strategies to help build healthy attachments in children who have experienced early trauma.

Games and Activities for Attaching With Your Child

Adoption

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Attaching in Adoption is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment. This classic text provides practical parenting strategies designed to enhance children's happiness and emotional health. It explains what attachment is, how grief and trauma can affect children's emotional development, and how to improve attachment, respect, cooperation and trust. Parenting techniques are matched to children's emotional needs and stages, and checklists are included to help parents assess how their child is doing at each developmental stage. The book covers a wide range of issues including international adoption, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, and learning disabilities, and combines sound theory and direct advice with case examples throughout. This book is a must read for anyone interested in adoption and for all adoptive families. It will also be a valuable resource for adoption professionals.

Jessica Kingsley Pub

Adopted children who have suffered trauma and neglect have structural brain change, as well as specific developmental and emotional needs. They need particular care to build attachment and overcome trauma. This book provides professionals with the knowledge and advice they need to help adoptive families build positive relationships and help children heal. It explains how neglect, trauma and prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol affect brain and emotional development, and explains how to recognise these effects and attachment issues in children. It also provides ways to help children settle into new families and home and school approaches that encourage children to flourish. The book also includes practical resources such as checklists, questionnaires, assessments and tools for professionals including social workers, child welfare workers and mental health workers. This book will be an invaluable resource for professionals working with adoptive families and will support them in nurturing positive family relationships and resilient, happy children. It is ideal as a child welfare text or reference book and will also be of interest to parents.

Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma

Capturing the warmth and fun of forming close relationships with children, this book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it difficult to attach and bond - whether following adoption, divorce or other difficult experiences. Attachment therapist Deborah D. Gray describes how to use the latest thinking on attachment in your daily parenting. She reveals sensory techniques which have proven to help children bond - straightforward activities like keeping close eye contact or stroking a child's feet or cheeks - and explains why routines like mealtimes and play time are so important in helping children to attach. The book offers positive ideas for responding to immediate crises like difficult behaviour and meltdowns, but importantly also offers longer-term strategies to help children to develop the skills they need to cope as they grow up - the ability to plan, concentrate and be in control of their emotions. Offering fascinating insights into how children who struggle to attach can be helped, this book is full of easy-to-use ideas which will help you to enjoy the many pleasures of bonding and attaching with your child.

Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play: Simple Strategies to Help Build Connections with Your Child

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Promoting Healthy Attachments: Hands-on Techniques to Use with Your Clients

Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents

Games and Activities for Attaching With Your Child

Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents

Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma

Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play: Simple Strategies to Help Build Connections with Your Child