Attachment-Based Clinical Work with Children and Adolescents

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bettmann, Joanna Ellen (Editor), Demetri Friedman, Donna (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Essential Clinical Social Work Series
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social policy.; Social work.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Social Sciences.; Social Work.; Child and School Psychology.; Family.; Social Policy.

It is hard to imagine child psychology without the work of John Bowlby: his insights into children’s relational experience have left a major impact across the mental health professions. But of all these fields, clinical work with children—which deals so much with the consequences of faulty attachmen...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• I. ATTACHMENT THEORY AND RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN
• Observing development: A comparative view of attachment theory and separation-individuation theory
• Securing attachment: Mother-infant research informs attachment-based clinical practice
• Using modern attachment theory to guide clinical assessments of early attachment relationships. II. ATTACHMENT-BASED CLINICAL WORK WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
• Becoming baby watchers: An attachment-based video intervention in a community mental health center
• Trauma focused child-parent psychotherapy in a community pediatric clinic: A cross-disciplinary collaboration
• he essential role of the body in the parent-infant relationship: Non-verbal analysis of attachment
• Gems hidden in plain sight: Peer-play psychotherapy nourishes relationships and growth across developmental domains among young children
• The impact of intervention points of entry on attachment-based processes of therapeutic change with prepubertal children
• Attachment processes in wilderness therapy settings
• III. BUILDING CAPACITY FOR ATTACHMENT-BASED CLINICAL WORK
• From out of sight, out of mind to in-sight and in mind: Enhancing reflective capacities in a group attachment-based intervention
• Implementing attachment theory in the child welfare system: Clinical implications and organizational considerations.