Attachment-Based Clinical Work with Children and Adolescents

1. Front Matter

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2. Attachment-Based Clinical Work with Children and Adolescents

   • Joanna Ellen Bettmann, Donna Demetri Friedman

   Pages 1-6

3. Attachment Theory and Research with Children

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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4. ATTACHMENT THEORY AND RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN

   1. Observing Development: A Comparative View of Attachment Theory and Separation–Individuation Theory

      • Inga Blom, Anni Bergman

      Pages 9-43

   2. Securing Attachment: Mother–Infant Research Informs

      • Donna Demetri Friedman, Leyla Ertegun, Tina Lupi, Beatrice Beebe, Sara Deutsch

      Pages 45-60

   3. Using Modern Attachment Theory to Guide Clinical Assessments of Early Attachment Relationships

      • Allan N. Schore, Ruth P. Newton

      Pages 61-96

5. Attachment-Based Clinical Work with Children and Adolescents

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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6. ATTACHMENT-BASED CLINICAL WORK WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

   1. Becoming BabyWatchers: An Attachment-Based Video Intervention in a Community Mental Health Center

      • Donna Demetri Friedman, Sara Deutsch, Leyla Ertegun, Stephanie Carlson, Mayra Estrada, Mark Sturgeon et al.

      Pages 99-114

   2. Trauma-Focused Child-parent Psychotherapy in a Community Pediatric Clinic: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

      • Todd S. Renschler, Alicia F. Lieberman, Miriam Hernandez Dimmler, Nadine Burke Harris

      Pages 115-139

   3. The Essential Role of the Body in the Parent–Infant Relationship: Nonverbal Analysis of Attachment

      • Suzi Tortora

      Pages 141-164

   4. Gems Hidden in Plain Sight: Peer Play Psychotherapy Nourishes Relationships and Growth Across Developmental Domains Among Young Children

      • Rebecca Shahmoon-Shanok, Ozlem Bekar, Emily Fried, Miriam Steele

      Pages 165-192

   5. The Impact of Intervention Points of Entry on Attachment-Based Processes of Therapeutic Change with Prepubertal Children

      • Geoff Goodman

      Pages 193-218

   6. Attachment Processes inWilderness Therapy

      • Joanna Ellen Bettmann, Isaac Karikari

      Pages 219-233

7. Building Capacity for Attachment-Based ClinicalWork

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235

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8. BUILDING CAPACITY FOR ATTACHMENT-BASED CLINICAL WORK

   1. From Out of Sight, Out of Mind to In Sight and In Mind: Enhancing Reflective Capacities in a Group Attachment-Based Intervention

      • Anne Murphy, Miriam Steele, Howard Steele

      Pages 237-257

   2. Implementing Attachment Theory in the ChildWelfare System: Clinical Implications and Organizational Considerations

      • Susanne Bennett, Wendy Whiting Blome

      Pages 259-283

9. Back Matter

   Pages 278-278

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Attachment-Based Social Work with Children and Adolescents is a wide-ranging look at attachment theory and research, its application to youth populations, and its natural fit with the social work profession. This book covers the applicability of attachment theory to the profession’s various domains that include human behavior, practice, policy, research, and social work education. In particular, it addresses the broad spectrum of clinical social work, including practice in a variety of public and private settings and with a number of diverse populations. The book highlights the contribution of the social work profession to the development of attachment theory and research.

• Adolescence
• Attachment Theory
• Attachment Theory in the Child Welfare System
• Attachment-based Clinical Practice
• Child development
• Clinical social work
• Community Mental Health
• EBP
• Early attachment relationships
• Education policy
• Evidence-based practice
• Group Attachment-Based Intervention
• John Bowlby
• Mother-infant research
• Nonverbal Analysis
• Parent-infant relationship
• Separation-individuation theory
• Social Justice in Social Work
• Social work education
• Social work practice

• College of Social Work, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

  Joanna Ellen Bettmann

• New York University, New York, USA

  Donna Demetri Friedman

Joanna Bettmann is an Associate Professor and MSW Program Director at the University of Utah College of Social Work. Her primary research focuses on attachment relationships in a range of populations.

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