The Simple Guide to Attachment Difficulties in Children
What They Are and How to Help
Published on 18. July 2019
120 pages
978-1-78592-640-2 (ISBN)
Description
? What are attachment difficulties?
? How do they affect children?
? How can you help?
This book provides clear and concise answers to these important questions - and more.
Much more than just a simple introduction to the subject of attachment, the book is also full of advice and practical ideas you can try. It tackles some challenging questions, such as 'what is the difference between trauma and attachment?', and explains how having an understanding of attachment is only part of the overall picture when it comes to caring for traumatized children.
It is an essential read for any adult parenting or caring for a child who has experienced attachment difficulties.
? How do they affect children?
? How can you help?
This book provides clear and concise answers to these important questions - and more.
Much more than just a simple introduction to the subject of attachment, the book is also full of advice and practical ideas you can try. It tackles some challenging questions, such as 'what is the difference between trauma and attachment?', and explains how having an understanding of attachment is only part of the overall picture when it comes to caring for traumatized children.
It is an essential read for any adult parenting or caring for a child who has experienced attachment difficulties.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
10 line drawings
File size
0,95 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78592-640-2 (9781785926402)
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Betsy de Thierry
The Simple Guide to Attachment Difficulties in Children
What They Are and How to Help
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07/2019
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Persons
Betsy de Thierry is a practising psychotherapist and with over 30 years of experience and knowledge within the field of Complex Trauma & navigating Trauma Recovery. She is the founder of Trauma Recovery Global, which provides training and consultancy and partnerships with select organisations and practitioners to licence her Trauma Recovery Focused Model (TRFM) in 34 nations. She is also the founder of the Trauma Recovery Centre (TRC), a charity specialising in recovery from complex trauma and the founder of CTRN (Childhood Trauma Recovery Network UK). Betsy is also a qualified primary school teacher and is a mum of four brilliant sons.
Content
- Intro
- The Simple Guide to Attachment Difficulties in Children by Betsy de Thierry. Foreword by Carrie Grant. Illustrated by Emma Reeves
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. What is Attachment?
- How does a healthy attachment develop?
- What are the core attachment theories?
- Internal schemas and internal working model
- Who can be an attachment figure?
- When it goes wrong
- Reflection points
- 2. How Does an Attachment Develop and Get Stronger?
- The four possible stages of attachment
- The difference between bonding and attachment
- Attunement
- Emotional connection
- Reflection points
- 3. The Brain Science around Attachment
- Understanding the threat response
- How the threat response affects behaviour
- The attachment chemicals that are released in birth and the stress chemicals that can hinder them
- Social relationships
- The concept of rupture and repair
- Reflection points
- 4. The Safe Place and Co-regulation
- What is co-regulation and how do I do it?
- When it's been difficult to co-regulate
- Exploring the concept of the safe place
- School as the safe place
- Reflection points
- 5. What Is an Unhealthy Attachment behaviour?
- Attachment behaviours
- How possible is it for children to develop a healthy attachment behaviour having had attachment difficulties?
- Reflection points
- 6. Parenting That Can Hinder a Healthy Attachment
- Anxious parenting
- Helicopter and controlling parenting
- Lack of emotional intelligence
- Domineering and authoritarian parenting
- Lack of boundaries from the parent or carer
- Emotionally absent parenting
- When the child becomes the carer
- When there is abuse in the home
- Reflection points
- 7. Attachment Trauma
- The impact of neglect and abuse on attachment
- The impact on relationships
- The impact on emotions
- The impact on behaviour
- The impact on learning
- When a child has been traumatised
- Reflection points
- 8. Attachment Difficulties
- Rejection
- Interaction with professionals
- Children recover from trauma in three ways
- Self care for the carer or parent of the child with attachment difficulties
- Reflection points
- 9. A Healing Adult Relationship
- Key character traits in an adult that enable healing
- The process of facilitating the rewiring of neural pathways and healing the subconscious
- Holding a child in mind
- Finding professional help
- Reflection points
- 10. Resilience, Bad Days and Top Tips!
- How much do the bad days impact the child?
- How can we help them with friendships?
- Other top tips to build positive relationships with children
- Containment, transference and countertransference
- Core beliefs
- Conclusion
- References
- Further Reading
- Index
