Parents Are Our Other Client

Therapists, social workers, and counselors should read Parents Are Our Other Client if they are looking to be more effective in their work with parents. The reader will learn how to recognize a parent's attachment pattern, how that has affected how they relate to their children, and how insecure attachment patterns can be shifted.

Sandra Wieland, PhD, was a psychologist, play therapist, trainer, and consultant in Victoria, Canada. She was previously a classroom teacher, special education teacher, and school counselor. Dr. Wieland taught internationally on trauma and working with parents, had written books and chapters on therapy with children and adolescents, and recently had edited Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents, Second Edition (Routledge, 2015). She received the Woman of Distinction Award and the Cornelia B. Wilbur Award for clinical excellence. In 2016 she was 'blanketed' by the Hulitan First Nations Family for her work with their therapists, children, and parents.

Introduction  1. The Parents and Us  2. Learning About the Parent and About Us  3. How Parenting Patterns Are Held in the Brain  4. Attending to Attachment Relationships  5. Using the Skills We Already Have  6. Helping Parents Move Out of Negative Interactive Patterns  7. When the Home is an Adoptive Home  8. Our Experience  9. Concluding Thought - Super-Vision, Peer-Vision, Self-Vision  Bibliography Index