Attachment Narrative Therapy: Applications and Developments

ISBN-13: 9783031127441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 313 str.

Rudi Dallos

Opis

This textbook provides an up-to-date guide to the application of Attachment Narrative Therapy (ANT), a model that combines concepts and techniques from systemic family therapy, narrative therapy and theory and attachment theory. Edited and with contributions from leading practitioners  of ANT, this book brings together illustrations of its   applications in a variety of clinical settings. It offers practical  guidance and the latest research from clinicians who are now advancing its application. Another  important feature is illustration of how practitioners  have developed ANT to  incorporate the latest ideas and methods from  trauma theory and  neuro-biology. It will provide a valuable new resource for practitioners, teachers and students of systemic practice, family therapy, clinical psychology, counselling and psychotherapy.

Spis treści

Introduction to the Book.- Attachment narrative therapy.- “Am I a good mother?”: when attachment bonds have been disrupted by chronic shame.- Supporting Parents of Children with an Intellectual Disability using Attachment Narrative Therapy.- Taking an insider position to working with family conflict, violence and domestic abuse: contributions from Attachment Narrative Therapy.- Working Systemically with Family Violence and Attachment Dilemmas.- SAFE, A manualised version of Attachment Narrative Therapy designed for families of children with an autism diagnosis.- Self-harm: Moving from Dyads to Triads.- Fostering Home–School relationships: SAFE with SCHOOLS.- Long Term Supervision in Post-qualification Systemic Psychotherapy: An Attachment Narrative Approach.- Setting Up an ANT-based Systemic Family Therapy Clinic: Experiences, recommendations and extensions.- Bereavement Attachment Narrative Therapy (BANT) : An ANT approach to working with Grief.

O autorze

Rudi Dallos is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Plymouth.  He has worked as a family therapist for 35 years and has engaged in research utilizing the ANT approach. He has published widely and written a number of books including:  Don’t Blame the Parents, Attachment Narrative Therapy, Formulation in Psychotherapy and Counselling and An Introduction to Family Therapy.