Routledge Handbook of Attachment: Implications and Interventions

<p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Attachment: Implications and Interventions</em> offers an introduction to therapies produced as a result of the popularity of attachment studies. These therapies can be divided into two categories: those that are ‘attachment-based’ in that they use evidence-based attachment assessments in their development or ‘attachment-informed’ in that the theories of attachment have been integrated into the practice of existing schools of therapy.</p><p>The book reviews the field and provides a range of interventions for children adults and parents beginning with a detailed review of both evidence-base and evidence-informed interventions including individual psychotherapy family therapy and parenting. The remaining chapters provide accounts from the practitioner’s perspective of interventions that address issues of attachment from the level of one-to-one therapy family and social work to social interventions involving courts and Care Proceedings illustrated with examples from day-to-day practice.</p><p>Discussing how an understanding of formal assessments of attachment can be used to inform therapeutic social and legal interventions to assist and protect children<i> The Routledge Handbook of Attachment: Implications and Interventions</i> is an indispensable guide for clinical psychologists psychiatrists and social workers working with children and families clinicians in training and students. </p>