Developing Secure Attachment Through Play: Helping Vulnerable Children Build Their Social and Emotional Wellbeing

ISBN-13: 9780367712884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 194 str.

Joan Moore

Opis

This book offers a range of imaginative and engaging play-based activities, designed to help vulnerable young children forge safe attachments with their caregivers. By engaging children in these activities, parents, caregivers and practitioners can help the children in their care gain a sense of belonging and develop their self-esteem.

Spis treści

Introduction  Social and Emotional Development  Trauma  Mirroring  Object Permanence  Cause and Effect  Physical Development and Sensory Integration  Language and Speech Development  Loss and Separation  Transition  Identity  Glossary of Terms  Bibliography  Appendices

O autorze

Joan Moore is an author, dramatherapist, play therapist and adoption support provider with foster, adoptive and kinship families. She works mainly with families in their home, applying her "Theatre of Attachment" model of life history therapy. Joan has written several books and peer-reviewed articles. Her doctoral study at Leeds Beckett University on using story and drama to support these placements is described in "Narrative and Dramatic Approaches to Children’s Life Story with Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families", published by Routledge. She supervises creative arts therapists and delivers training. Having a background in social work with children and families and Youth Justice, Joan has undertaken Expert Witness Assessments of siblings, children’s care needs, parents, and assessments of prospective adoptive parents, foster carers and kinship carers.