Hope for Healing: A Parent's Guide to Trauma and Attachment

The language of children is behavior. Feelings such as loss, grief and sadness may be expressed in angry, alienating behaviors. Children with attachment disturbances often try to protect themselves against further hurt, shame and anxiety by using behavior to push away those closest to them. Their emotions can become even more turbulent during adolescence. Fortunately, children with attachment disorders can be treated successfully, enabling them to have healthy, loving and trusting relationships. This guide is designed to help parents of children who have disabilities and/or disorders of attachment. The guide is educational, inspirational and supportive. Caretakers will learn a new way of looking at, and responding to, their child's behavior allowing them to parent more effectively. Providing a good home is not enough for many children. Parents need to truly understand their child's issues, and needs. Only then can a parent create a therapeutic home environment and access appropriate resources to promote healing.