Attaching in Adoption

Practical Tools for Today's Parents

Deborah D. Gray

Paperback: £16.99 / $24.95

2012, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 400pp
ISBN: 978-1-84905-890-2, BIC 2: JMC JKSF VFVK

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Acknowledgements. Introduction: Equipping Parents of Children at Risk for Attachment Problems. 1. What is Attachment and Why is it Important? 2. Challenges for Children and Parents. 3. What Children Have Already Learned About Attachment. 4. Grief and Its Effects. 5. Trauma and Traumatic Loss. 6. The Impact of Cultural Change. 7. Other Complications for Attaching. 8. Emotional Development: Promoting Attachment at Every Phase. 9. The Shape of Progress. 10. Relaxing the Grip of Anxiety and Control. 11. The Fairness Factor. 12. Building Emotional Intelligence. 13. Forming a Team of Support. 14. Getting Professional Help. Epilogue. Appendix. Resources. Index.

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• Deborah D. Gray

Subject areas

• Parenting
• Health, Social Work and Social Care
• Psychiatry and Psychology

Collections

• Adoption and fostering books for parents

Keywords

• adoption,
• applied behaviour analysis,
• attachment,
• carers,
• child development,
• child protection,
• child psychiatry,
• child psychology,
• children,
• communication,
• counselling,
• educational psychology,
• emotions,
• families,
• fostering,
• grief,
• looked after children,
• mental health,
• parenting,
• relationships,
• resilience,
• safeguarding children,
• social care,
• social work,
• teenagers,
• trauma

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