Understanding Attachment Injuries in Children and How to Help: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers: Attachment-Based Parenting Addressing Developmental ... Guardians, Kinship and Other Caregivers - Softcover

Young, Catherine A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1733570322 ISBN 13: 9781733570329

Publisher: Granite Swan Press, 2021

Synopsis

Helping Parents Help their Children!
~ New, Innovative and Practical Strategies! ~

A Must-Read for anyone parenting or caring for a child with a difficult or traumatic early history!

Children who have had difficulties, trauma or disruptions in their first, early relationship with their parent or primary caregiver often struggle with attachment injuries. These children frequently come to reject the very things they most need from their parents or caregivers: love and connection. This presents special challenges for parents.

If you are the parent or caregiver of a child with attachment injuries, the ideas in this book will bolster your role as an agent of healing and change for your child. You will find new and innovative concepts and attachment-based strategies to help you help your child. In this book, you will learn:

• The underlying dynamics and motivations of attachment-injured children.
• How to create safety and build connection with your child.
• How to help your child re-story their life in a healthy, adaptive way.
• What to look for and what to avoid in therapy for your child.
• Practical strategies to reduce and address challenging behavior.
• How to understand mental health diagnoses.
• Some commonly-used terms related to attachment and child trauma.

Within the pages of this book, you will find many practical and down-to-earth suggestions with examples and insights to guide you along the way. This book focuses on children with attachment injuries, including foster, adopted and kinship care, but all parents are likely to find value within!

Discover attachment-based parenting to address mild to sever attachment injuries including developmental trauma and reactive attachment disorder (rad). Adoptive, biological, and foster parents, guardians, kinship, and other caregivers will find new ways of understanding their child, along with useful and revolutionary parenting strategies to heal relational wounds and help their child become emotionally and relationally connected.

They say kids don't come with a manual, but this is the next best thing!
~ WB - parent, life coach, former supervisor and counselor in children's residential treatment

About this title

About the Author

Catherine Young, LMFT, is an author, trainer, clinical supervisor, and child and family therapist. She has devoted over 25 years to working with children and families in settings as diverse as early childhood mental health, children's day treatment, foster and adoption agencies, and youth probation. She is the founder of a new therapy model for helping children with some of the most challenging and treatment-resistant behaviors and their families: Multi-Modal Attachment Therapy (M-MAT).

Edition details

• Publisher: Granite Swan Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1733570322
• ISBN 13: 9781733570329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 229