Trauma, Attachment and Family Permanence (eBook, ePUB Enhanced)

Fear Can Stop You Loving
Redaktion: Archer, Caroline

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Produktbeschreibung

Fostered and adopted children can present major challenges resulting from unresolved attachment issues and early traumatic experiences. In this much-needed book, the contributors provide a variety of complementary perspectives on the needs of these children and their families, focusing on ways of integrating attachment theory and developmental psychology into effective practice.

Examining multiple aspects of work with children who are unable to live with their birth families, the book includes contributions on the assessment, preparation and support needs of children and families, attachment and the neurobiological effects of trauma, effective management of contact with birth families and developmental challenges in school settings. The use of creative arts therapies, alongside developmental reparenting strategies as part of a long-term attachment therapy `package', are explored in some detail.

A fictionalised family, used as a working example throughout Part 2, brings

practical interventions to life: illustrating the Family Futures' inclusive approach, where adoptive and foster parents become pivotal members of the therapeutic team. In addition, contributions from real-life user families illustrate some of the challenges they face and demonstrate how the developmental attachment-based approach has worked for them.

Bringing together a rich and innovative selection of ideas for adoption and fostering practice across the disciplines, this book will be a valuable resource for all involved in supporting substitute families.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846423871
• Artikelnr.: 38357832

Autorenporträt

Caroline Archer is a parent mentor, consultant and trainer in adoption support, a member of the Family Futures team and an adoptive parent. She has published two popular adoption-related books, First Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts and Next Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts with Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Alan Burnell is an adopted person and a social worker with many years experience in working with families. For some years he was Director of the Post Adoption Centre in London, before moving on to co-found Family Futures with Jay Vaughan and Christine Gordon. Family Futures Consortium provides services for parents and professionals working with adopted and fostered children, including training and consultation for statutory and voluntary agencies nationwide. In their therapeutic work with families, they have evolved a unique intensive, multi-disciplinary approach to supporting children with attachment and trauma-related difficulties.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Daniel A. Hughes. Introduction: A Tapestry of Colours. Caroline
Archer, Family Futures Consortium, London Part 1. State of Play: Current
Theory and Practice. 1. Adoption and Permanence Today: A Discussion. Adrian
Briggs, Family Futures Consortium, London. 2. The `Coherent Narrative':
Realism, Resources and Responsibility in Family Permanence. Elsie Price. 3.
Setting up the Loom: Attachment Theory Revisited. Alan Burnell, Family
Futures Consortium, London with Caroline Archer. 4. Weft and Warp:
Developmental Impact of Trauma and Implications for Healing. Caroline
Archer. 5. Clinical Concepts and Caregiving Contexts: A Consultant's
Perspective. Jeanne Magagna, Principal Child Psychotherapist, Great Ormond
Street Hospital for Sick Children, London. 6. `A Hard Day's Night': A
Parent's Perspective. Lucy Greenmile. Part 2: State of the Art: Theory into
Practice. Jenny and Marty's Story Jay Vaughan, Family Futures Consortium,
London. 7. Assessment: A Multi-disciplinary Approach. Alan Burnell. 8.
Rationale for the Intensive Programme. Jay Vaughan. 9. The Drama of
Adoption Jay Vaughan. 10. The Drama Unfolds. Jay Vaughan. 11. Contact as
Therapy. Alan Burnell. 12. Holding the Fort. Christine Gordon, Family
Futures Consortium, London. 13. Hands on Help. Christine Gordon. 14.
Difficulty with Learning or Learning to be Difficult? Griselda
Kellie-Smith, Family Futures Consortium, London. Part 3: State, Community
and Family: The Future. 15. Weaving Together the Threads: Families with
Futures. Caroline Archer. References. Index.