Reassessing Attachment Theory in Child Welfare

ISBN-13: 9781447336921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 152 str.

Trish Walsh; Sue White; David Wastell

Opis

This book offers an analysis of the limitations of child attachment theory as the basis for decision-making in child welfare practice, examining controversies and offering a new pedagogy that is responsive to the changing dynamics of contemporary families.

Spis treści

Preface: becoming attached to attachment theory Love is a wondrous state: origins and early debates Social work and the attachment story: a felicitous bond? Shaping practice: prescribing assessment Practising attachment theory in child welfare Exhibiting disorganised attachment: not even wrong? Breaking the back of love: attachment goes neuro-molecular Coda: love reawakened?