Understanding Attachment Injuries in Children and How to Help: a Guide for Parents and Caregivers

This book discusses the dynamics and motivations of children with attachment injuries but, more importantly, how parents can help their children. It empowers parents to be active agents of healing and change in their child's life. Parents will learn how to create safety and build connection with their child, how to help their child re-story their concepts of love, family and relationship, and, of course, strategies for reducing and addressing challenging behavior. They will further...
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This book discusses the dynamics and motivations of children with attachment injuries but, more importantly, how parents can help their children. It empowers parents to be active agents of healing and change in their child's life. Parents will learn how to create safety and build connection with their child, how to help their child re-story their concepts of love, family and relationship, and, of course, strategies for reducing and addressing challenging behavior. They will further learn how to understand mental health diagnoses and terms related to attachment and child trauma. Within this book the reader will find many practical, down-to-earth suggestions with examples and insights to provide guidance along the way. This book focuses on children with attachment injuries, but all parents or people who work with children are likely to find value within! Attachment-based parenting addressing developmental trauma for adoptive, biological, and foster parents, guardians, kinship and other caregivers.