A Practical Guide to Caring for Children and Teenagers with Attachment Difficulties

This book provides a comprehensive guide to caregivers by explaining what attachment is, what different patterns of attachment look like in children and young people, and how this understanding can help them to develop therapeutic ways of caring. Based on extensive practical experience, the author shows how to promote recovery through secure base experiences and provides practical solutions and methods to tackle challenging and problem behavior, anger and the effects of trauma in children with attachment problems. By drawing together theory and practice, this book provides caregivers with the theoretical understanding and practice skills required to develop and sustain a caring and supportive environment.