Severe Attachment Disorder in Childhood

This handbook provides both basic theory and suggestions for daily practice. The coverage reviews classic symptoms of disturbed attachment, and outlines treatment, from measures to ensure a healthy attachment early in life to treatment at different stages of personality development.

Based on more than 20 years of theory and personal practice, this handbook of therapy provides a theoretical understanding of the topic, and a wealth of suggestions for daily practice. The coverage includes a cross-scientific theoretical overview, the classic symptoms of disturbed attachment, and treatment at different stages of development, from measures to ensure a healthy attachment early in life to treatment at different stages of personality development to adulthood. Each step includes many examples from daily practice as well as checklists at different stages. Special sections on adoption issues, how to teach the AD schoolchild, sexual abuse and AD give tools and inspiration for the reader's own research. The final chapters address the personal development of the therapist as well as suggestions for designing the therapeutic milieu and teamwork. The book is equally useful to the practitioner and the adoptive parent or foster family.

Cross-scientific understanding of Attachment Disorder A vast number of tools for diagnosis as well as practice Comprehensible and interesting to the lay person as well the professional

Autorentext

Rygaard, Niels Peter/ Clinical Psychologist, specialist approved by DPA (the Danish Psychologist Association)/Private practitioner, m.o. The International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD)

Inhalt
General Introduction.- General Introduction.- A.D. Development from Conception to Adulthood.- Causes and Symptoms.- Stages in Self-Organization.- Contact Disruption Before Age 2 Symptoms of Physical Instability.- Contact Disruption and Nervous System Development.- Abnormal Sensory-Motor Development in the Toddler.- Arrested Emotional Personality Development.- Therapy.- How Can You Practice Milieu Therapy?.- Milieu Therapy During Pregnancy, Birth to Age 3.- Transient Bonding Problems and Attachment Disorder in Adopted Children.- Milieu Therapy for the Preschool Child.- Milieu Therapy for the School Age Child.- The Attachment Disordered Child in the Classroom.- Daily Life in the Family, the Foster Family or the Institution.- Milieu Therapy for the Juvenile.- Attachment Disorder, Sexual Behavior Problems and Sexual Abuse.- Guidelines for Organizing the Therapeutic Milieu.- The Personal Development of the AD Caretaker.- Developing the Professional AD Team.- Methods for the AD Teamwork.