Analyzing a range of traditional and contemporary perspectives, this crisp text explores the core attachment styles and charts their impact on childhood and adult behaviour. Written by one of social work's most highly-regarded commentators, it is a perfect introduction to the complex field of attachment theory.

Table of Contents

Attachment Behaviour Affect Regulation The Internal Working Model Patterns of Attachment Attachment in Adulthood Secure Attachments in Childhood Secure Attachments in Adulthood Avoidant Attachments in Childhood Avoidant and Dismissing Attachments in Adulthood Ambivalent Attachments in Childhood Anxious and Preoccupied Attachments in Adulthood Disorganised and Controlling Attachments in Childhood Fearful Avoidant Attachments and Unresolved States of Mind in Adulthood Nature and Nurture Stability, Change and Adaptation Epilogue

About the Author

DAVID HOWE Professor of Social Work at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He was founding editor of the Blackwell Science Journal, Child and Family Social Work (1996-2001) and is author of many books, including: Attachment Theory for Social Work Practice; Attachment Theory, Child Maltreatment and Family Support; Child Abuse and Neglect: Attachment, Development and Intervention; and The Emotionally Intelligent Social Worker.

Reviews

'The book is brief but very rich. You very rarely see a child with particular attachment characteristics growing up. Not so here: the child grows up both across and within chapters. Quite honestly, I cannot remember coming across such a sharp integration of the adult social psychology and the developmental psychology perspectives.' - Professor Peter Fonagy, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, University College London