The Routledge Handbook of Attachment: The Routledge Handbook of Attachment: Implications and Interventions

__The Routledge Handbook of Attachment: Implications and Interventions__ offers an introduction to therapies produced as a result of the popularity of attachment studies. These therapies can be divided into two categories: those that are ‘attachment-based’, in that they use evidence-based attachment assessments in their development, or ‘attachment-informed’, in that the theories of attachment have been integrated into the practice of existing schools of therapy. The book reviews the field and provides a range of interventions for children, adults and parents, beginning with a detailed review of both evidence-base and evidence-informed interventions including individual psychotherapy, family therapy and parenting. The remaining chapters provide accounts, from the practitioner’s perspective, of interventions that address issues of attachment from the level of one-to-one therapy, family and social work to social interventions involving courts and Care Proceedings, illustrated with examples from day-to-day practice. Discussing how an understanding of formal assessments of attachment can be used to inform therapeutic, social and legal interventions to assist and protect children, __The Routledge Handbook of Attachment: Implications and Interventions__ is an indispensable guide for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers working with children and families, clinicians in training and students. The Routledge Handbook of Attachment: Implications and Interventions offers an introduction to therapies produced as a result of the popularity of attachment studies. These therapies can be divided into two categories: those that are 'attachment-based'. in that they use evidence-based attachment assessments in their development, or, 'attachment-informed', in that the theories of attachment have been integrated into the practice of existing schools of therapy. (Publisher). Introduction / Steve Farnfield and Paul Holmes -- Attachment theory and its uses in child psychotherapy / Graham Music -- / where the child is the concern : working psychotherapeutically with parents / Jeremy Holmes -- Attachment theory in systemic family therapy / Kathleen Chimera -- Attachment-based interventions : sensitive parenting is the key to positive parent-child relationships / Femmie Juffer, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg and Marinus H. van Ijzendoorn -- Attachment-focused interventions for children & teens with moderate to severe emotional/behavioral problems as well as the adults responsible for their care / Daniel Hughes -- Clinical implications of attachment in immigrant communities / Elaine Arnold -- Attachment : a british lawyer's perspective / Mary Ann Harris -- The applications of attachment theory in the field of adoption and fostering / Jeanne Kaniuk -- Attachment and social work / David Howe. edited by Paul Holmes and Steve Farnfield. Includes bibliographical references and index.