Teenagers and Attachment! - Andrea Perry et al

BEST FOR a range of perspectives and approaches to supporting troubled young people, including those become marginalised

A collection of papers from leading practitioners working with adolescents with attachment difficulties in a wide variety of contexts (school, clinical practice and psychiatry, therapy, higher education, the community, those from a refugee background). The book integrates understanding of key attachment principles to address the kinds of challenges faced by adolescents who have grown up with insecure attachment patterns when they hit puberty. The book provides practical and creative strategies for work with young people who are now in gangs and outside any formal societal structures, or on drugs, all the way through to the few young people from insecure and traumatic backgrounds who manage to get to college. The contributors to this book include Dr Karl Heinz Brisch, the leading European attachment expert, Louise Bombèr, Marie Delaney, Dan Hughes and other experienced professionals in the adolescent field.