Assessing Disorganized Attachment Behaviour in Children
eBook - ePub

Assessing Disorganized Attachment Behaviour in Children

An Evidence-Based Model for Understanding and Supporting Families

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Assessing Disorganized Attachment Behaviour in Children

An Evidence-Based Model for Understanding and Supporting Families

About this book

Assessing Disorganized Attachment Behaviour in Children lays out an evidence-based model for working with and assessing children with disorganized attachment and their adult carers: families whose extreme, erratic and disturbing behaviour can make them perplexing and frustrating to work with.

The model is designed to identify key indicators and explanatory mechanisms of child maltreatment: disorganized attachment in the child, a parent's unresolved loss or trauma, disconnected and extremely insensitive parenting, and low parental mentalisation. The book also outlines ways of assessing children for disorganized attachment and carer capacity, and proposes interventions.

Accessible and practical, this book is essential reading for child protection professionals.

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Yes, you can access Assessing Disorganized Attachment Behaviour in Children by David Shemmings, Yvonne Shemmings in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Work. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Of Related Interest
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 The Maltreatment Pathway Model and its Components
  10. 2 The Notion of Enhanced Relationship Skills
  11. 3 Using Enhanced Relationship Skills in Practice
  12. 4 Exploring Mechanisms of Maltreatment in a Family
  13. 5 Identifying Low Mentalizing Capacity Using the Adult Attachment Interview
  14. 6 Using a Guided Parenting Task
  15. 7 Using a Strange Situation Procedure and Guided Parenting Tasks
  16. 8 Working with Disconnected or Insensitive Parents by Increasing Mentalizing Capacity
  17. 9 Using Modified Story Stems
  18. 10 Exploring Children’s Inner Worlds
  19. 11 Using the Child Attachment Interview
  20. 12 Working with Children and Families to Promote a Secure Base
  21. 13 Attachment to People and Place with Traveller Families
  22. 14 Introducing the ADAM Project Across the Entire Children and Families Department in Enfield, London
  23. 15 Introducing the ADAM Project in Lewisham
  24. 16 Using Pathway Model Components as Counter-indicators in a Complex Child Protection Referral
  25. 17 ‘Fake It Till You Make It’: Can Deliberately Adopting Secure Attachment Behaviour Lead to Secure Attachment Organization?
  26. 18 Afterword
  27. Contributors
  28. Bibliography
  29. Index
  30. Also available