Inside I’m Hurting - Louise Bombèr

BEST FOR .. Practical ways to make secure key adult-pupil relationships

Building immediately on the principles established in Attachment in the Classroom, Inside I'm Hurting is now regarded as the seminal best-selling work in establishing ‘what works’ interventions to help all children settle to learn in school. The concept of a school-based ‘Key Adult’ is introduced as a secondary child attachment figure, to work effectively with children with attachment difficulties as a result of early relational trauma, loss or neglect. The book offers a plethora of interventions for the Key Adult and the Team Around the Child to create security for the insecure child and how and when such interventions should be used. The author also describes how to develop and constructively maintain the school's relationship with the child's primary attachment figure, the parent, adoptive parent or carer.