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Dedication. Introduction. 1. Close Connections: Attaching and Bonding. 2. Put Your Oxygen Mask on First 3. Teaching Children to Calm, Care, and Think: Behavior and Daily Routines. 4. Helping Children with Thinking and Caring. 5. "Carrots and Sticks", Rewards and Limits. 6. Life Stories. 7. Promoting Attachment in Tweens and Teens. Epilogue.
Simple advice from attachment therapist Deborah Gray to help parents and carers capture the warmth and fun of forming secure, healthy attachments with children
Deborah D. Gray is the author of the bestselling book for
parents, Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
and an award-winning book for professionals, Nurturing Adoptions:
Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma. Deborah has been
described as "attachment guru" by Adoptive Families magazine, and
specializes in the attachment, grief, and trauma issues of children
in her private practice, Nurturing Attachments, which is based in
Kirkland, Washington, USA. Her passion is to help families develop
close, satisfying relationships. A clinical social worker, she has
worked over 25 years in foster and adopted children's therapies and
placement. She has also been a therapeutic foster parent.
Deborah is core faculty for the award-winning Post-Graduate
Certificate program in Foster and Adoption Therapy at Portland
State University. She is main faculty in the ATTACh-recognized
Post-Graduate Attachment Therapy Certificate Program through
Cascadia Training. She has taught in the Trauma Certificate Program
at the University of WA and was the 2008 Henry W. Maier
Practitioner in Residence at the School of Social Work at the
University of WA. Deborah is a popular presenter due to her
practical and positive approaches. She has keynoted conferences
ranging from the Joint Council of International Children's Services
to Orphan Conferences. She continues to work in a clinical practice
with parents and children, who help to teach her new approaches and
techniques every day. Visit her website at
www.deborahdgray.com.
Deborah has provided us with a highly practical book aimed at
helping parents to parent in a way that promotes attachment
security. This book is full of wisdom and clear suggestions for
parenting children with a range of insecurities across a range of
ages from toddlers to teens. Whilst there are some UK/USA
differences, there really is something for everyone here. I
especially liked the focus on parents taking care of themselves and
the way that all behavioural management suggestions are provided
within the context of providing warm, nurturing care that promotes
connection, security, and self esteem. When these qualities are
central within parenting our children will grow to successful
maturity able to fulfil their potential.
*Kim Golding, Clinical Psychologist with Worcestershire Health and
Care NHS Trust*
A must read for parents! Informative and practical knowledge for
parents about two critical aspects of childhood development;
emotional intelligence and attachment.
*Dr. Sue Cornbluth, Clinical Psychologist and Professor of
Psychology at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA*
This is a lovely, practical, wise book that parents will find
helpful on many levels. The author seamlessly integrates attachment
concepts, brain science, and concrete examples of parent-child
interactions to provide a well-spring of hands-on guidance for
raising resilient, secure, emotionally intelligent kids. I highly
recommend it.
*Jonathan Baylin, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Broudy and
Associates, Wilmington, Delaware*
Attaching Through Love, Hugs, and Play is an invaluable resource
for parents wanting to deepen their relationship with their
children. For struggling parents, Attaching Through Love, Hugs and
Play provides an accessible resource for understanding what is
driving their children's challenging behaviours. More importantly,
in this volume, Deborah Gray provides a practical playbook for
bringing joy and laughter into the parenting relationship!
*Dr. Karyn Purvis, Director of the Institute of Child Development,
TCU, Fort Worth, Texas*
In Attaching Through Love, Hugs, and Play, Deborah Gray focus on
parenting skills that develop strong secure attachments needed for
children to be willing to turn to a special adult or adults for
protection, calming and reassurance of their worth. Gray provides a
wealth of concrete examples of how touch, play, language, structure
and limit setting can be employed to strengthen the nurturing
parent-child connection that is the foundation of pre-social child
development. Any parent, foster parent or adoptive parent who is
helping an abused or neglected child recover from early trauma and/
or neglect will find a wealth of invaluable practical guidance in
Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play. Public child welfare
agencies should consider making Deborah's Gray's books widely
available to foster parents and adoptive parents who are desperate
for guidance in parenting children whose early histories have left
a legacy of fear, anger and distrust of caregivers.
*Dee Wilson, Director, Child Welfare Services, Casey Family
Programs, Author of the Sounding Board commentaries*
This easy-to-read book has much to offer to adopters or
step-parents about how to develop attachments... Parents will find
many examples of everyday behaviour that they face alongside
practical strategies to illustrate how to respond helpfully,
especially for children whose early experience include trauma,
abuse or loss... As the title suggests, t values sensory approaches
to forming emotional connection, using touch and play to help
provide nurture and regulate emotional states... Overall this is a
very rich and positive book, which presents a well-informed,
humane, evidence-based view of parenting strategies that will
enhance attachment. it is likely to be valuable resource,
especially for parents of children who have had adverse early
experiences.
*Seen and Heard*
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