Attachment Handbook for Foster Care and Adoption. This item is unavailable.Attachment Handbook for Foster Care and Adoption

Attachment is at the heart of family life and at the heart of foster care and adoption. Attachment theory and research provide a vital developmental framework for making sense of the behaviour and relationship strengths and difficulties that children bring from their complex backgrounds. This authoritative book - now in its second edition - provides an accessible account of core attachment concepts and the Secure Base model. It traces the pathways of secure and insecure patterns from birth to adulthood, exploring the impact of past experiences of abuse, neglect and separation on children's behaviour in foster and adoptive families. It then explains the Secure Base dimensions of parenting that are associated with helping children to feel more secure and to fulfil their potential in the family and in the community. Finally, it tackles the key role which 'keeping attachment in mind' can play in family placement practice, and offers useful advice to carers on how they can provide a secure base.

'This handbook is exactly that; a book that should be kept to hand by foster carers, adopters and social workers alike. It is accessible both to read from cover to cover, or to dip into as and when issues arise. It is explanatory, supportive and encouraging but, above all, practical.' --Children & Young People Now Really good insight into attachment, a real eye opener! I would recommend this to anyone going through adoption process or foster care --Amazon review While going through the assessment process to become adoptive parents, my local library found me a copy of the handbook. I have now bought my own copy. Coming from a non-academic but rather a personal direction, I found that the book is broken down into sections that are readable, interesting and give a very practical insight into reactions and behaviours of children that have been through difficult situations. It gives several different reactions the children may have and ways to work through these with the children. I decided to buy a copy for ourselves as we don't yet know who will be joining us. I will hopefully be using it as a tool to guide us a little more smoothly along the way, especially as it splits up the sections to cover different age groups from tiny babies into their teenage years and is easier than other books to dip in and out to find the piece you want and give yourself a reminder. --Amazon review --Reviews of the previous edition

'An essential text for those looking for an authoritative guide to attachment theory, combined with a practical guide to therapeutic care-giving for foster carers and adopters, as well as those who support them' Professor David Howe, University of East Anglia --As quoted on the back cover