Attachment-based Practice with Adults: Understanding Strategies and Promoting Positive Change, Second Edition

by Clark Baim, Tony Morrison

Overview

Attachment theory has become central to understanding not only childhood development and how people survive and grow, but also the capacity of partners, parents and carers to offer safe and consistent care. Updating a bestselling guide, Attachment-based Practice with Adults, Second Edition integrates attachment theory with other concepts to explore how we can understand and respond to troubled adults. By integrating audio, visual and written information around five characters and their stories, the guide shows how to make sense of, talk with and relate to individuals whose past relationships have caused them difficulties. The Second Edition also includes Attachment-based Practice with Adults: The interviewing guide, previously part of the manual but now included as a separate publication and also available to purchase separately.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781803882079
Publisher:	Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
Publication date:	09/30/2023
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Clark Baim is a psychotherapist, supervisor, group leader and consultant. He is President of the British Psychodrama Association, and he is also on the faculty of the Family Relations Institute. He is lead author of the book Attachment-based Practice with Children, Adolescents and Families (Pavilion, 2022). Tony Morrison was a leading figure in social care, particularly respected for his work on supervision, interdisciplinary collaboration and staff development. He was the first chair of the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers and was made an MBE in 1998. His book Supervision in Social Care (3e 2006) has become the standard text on the subject.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition Foreword by David Howe Introduction and How to Use This Guide PART ONE: ATTACHMENT THEORY, MEMORY SYSTEMS, DISCOURSE AND THE LEARN MODEL 1. Introducing attachment theory; 2. Memory systems, integration and discourse; 3. The LEARN model for promoting narrative integration PART TWO: PUTTING ATTACHMENT THEORY TO WORK – FIVE CASE STUDIES, WITH GUIDED PRACTICE EXERCISES Introduction to Part Two; 4. Beth and the reorganising ‘B’ strategy; 5. Anne and the concerning ‘A’ strategy; 6. Adam and the endangering ‘A’ strategy; 7. Calum and the concerning ‘C’ strategy; 8. Christy and the endangering ‘C’ strategy PART THREE: INTEGRATING ATTACHMENTINFORMED PRACTICE Introduction to Part Three; 9. Principles and tools for assessment, formulation and treatment; 10. Supporting, supervising and sustaining practitioners using the attachment-based approach (co-written with Bridget Rothwell)