The Simple Guide to Attachment Difficulties in Children : What They Are and How to Help.

Intro -- The Simple Guide to Attachment Difficulties in Children by Betsy de Thierry. Foreword by Carrie Grant. Illustrated by Emma Reeves -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. What is Attachment? -- How does a healthy attachment develop? -- What are the core attachment theories? -- Internal schemas and internal working model -- Who can be an attachment figure? -- When it goes wrong -- Reflection points -- 2. How Does an Attachment Develop and Get Stronger? -- The four possible stages of attachment -- The difference between bonding and attachment -- Attunement -- Emotional connection -- Reflection points -- 3. The Brain Science around Attachment -- Understanding the threat response -- How the threat response affects behaviour -- The attachment chemicals that are released in birth and the stress chemicals that can hinder them -- Social relationships -- The concept of rupture and repair -- Reflection points -- 4. The Safe Place and Co-regulation -- What is co-regulation and how do I do it? -- When it's been difficult to co-regulate -- Exploring the concept of the safe place -- School as the safe place -- Reflection points -- 5. What Is an Unhealthy Attachment behaviour? -- Attachment behaviours -- How possible is it for children to develop a healthy attachment behaviour having had attachment difficulties? -- Reflection points -- 6. Parenting That Can Hinder a Healthy Attachment -- Anxious parenting -- Helicopter and controlling parenting -- Lack of emotional intelligence -- Domineering and authoritarian parenting -- Lack of boundaries from the parent or carer -- Emotionally absent parenting -- When the child becomes the carer -- When there is abuse in the home -- Reflection points -- 7. Attachment Trauma -- The impact of neglect and abuse on attachment -- The impact on relationships -- The impact on emotions -- The impact on behaviour.

The impact on learning -- When a child has been traumatised -- Reflection points -- 8. Attachment Difficulties -- Rejection -- Interaction with professionals -- Children recover from trauma in three ways -- Self care for the carer or parent of the child with attachment difficulties -- Reflection points -- 9. A Healing Adult Relationship -- Key character traits in an adult that enable healing -- The process of facilitating the rewiring of neural pathways and healing the subconscious -- Holding a child in mind -- Finding professional help -- Reflection points -- 10. Resilience, Bad Days and Top Tips! -- How much do the bad days impact the child? -- How can we help them with friendships? -- Other top tips to build positive relationships with children -- Containment, transference and countertransference -- Core beliefs -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Index.

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