Attachment Narrative Therapy / Edition 1

by Rudi Dallos

Overview

• What are some of the central connections between narrative, systemic and attachment therapies?
• How do early emotional experiences in families shape our narratives about ourselves and our families?
• In what ways do family attachments shape our narrative abilities, such as being able to reflect on and integrate our experiences?

This book sets out a framework for practice – Attachment Narrative Therapy – that provides a new approach to working with families, couples and individuals. This is not offered as a prescriptive model but as an aid and guide to practice that draws aspects of narrative and attachment therapy into systemic work. The synthesis of these ideas offers clinicians a new integrative way to approach their practice – one in which the three approaches are used to create a greater whole than their constituent parts.

The book includes:

• Clinical examples
• Personal reflections
• Frameworks for clinical practice
• Therapeutic guides that include details of the application of core techniques
• Extensive reading guides that offer connections to related theory and practice

Attachment Narrative Therapy is essential reading for a wide variety of therapists and counsellors along with researchers and trainers in those fields. It also provides insight into good practice for health and social welfare professionals in the area of family and child welfare.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335214174
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date:	05/01/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Rudi Dallos is a Consultant Clinical psychologist and Programme Director of the D.Clin. Psychology training programme at the University of Plymouth. He also teaches on qualifying systemic family therapy courses, an intermediate family therapy course and conducts a variety of guest lecturing. He offers extensive clinical and research supervision, especially in areas related to this proposed publication.

Table of Contents

Foreword     vii
Introduction     1
Attachment: meanings and identity     10
Systems, communication and attachments     34
Narratives and attachments     60
Narrative systemic therapy: an attachment perspective     86
Attachment narrative therapy     111
The process of attachment narrative therapy     133
Case study: Cathy and her family     146
Formats for exploration     166
References     170
Index     179