The Routledge Handbook of Attachment: Implications and Interventions

This indispensable book shows how an understanding of assessments of attachment can be used to inform interventions to assist and protect children.

Paul Holmes is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who also trained as an adult psychotherapist. He worked in community child and adolescent mental health teams for many years, and with specialist services for fostered and adopted children. He has increasingly applied his long-standing interest in attachment theory to his work in providing expert psychiatric opinions to the British courts in child care proceedings. Steve Farnfield is a Senior Lecturer and established the MSc in Attachment Studies at the University of Roehampton, UK. He is a social worker and play therapist with many years' experience and a licensed trainer for the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment Infant CARE-Index, Preschool Assessment of Attachment and Adult Attachment Interview developed by Patricia Crittenden.

1. Introduction Steve Farnfield and Paul Holmes 2. Attachment Theory and its uses in Child psychotherapy Graham Music 3. Where the Child is the Concern: Working psychotherapeutically with parents Jeremy Holmes 4. Attachment Theory in Systemic Family Therapy Kathleen Chimera 5. Attachment-Based Interventions: Sensitive Parenting is the Key to Positive Parent-Child RelationshipsFemmie Juffer, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg and Marinus H. van Ijzendoorn 6. Attachment-focused Interventions for Children and Teens with Moderate to Severe Emotional/Behavioral Problems as well as the Adults Responsible for their Care Daniel Hughes 7. Clinical Implications of Attachment in Immigrant Communities Elaine Arnold 8. Attachment: A British Lawyer's Perspective Mary Ann Harris 9. The Applications of Attachment Theory in the Field of Adoption and Fostering Jeanne Kaniuk 10. Attachment and Social Work David Howe.