Description
Book SynopsisAttachment in Intellectual and Developmental Disability Skillfully introduced and edited by Helen Fletcher and her colleagues, this long-needed collection of excellent chapters on attachment and disability reveals the vast wellspring of resilience that persons with disability possess or can be helped to achieve. Readers will discover how best to support a family member, client or friend with a disability'. A definitive resource for multiple disciplines, this book is surely required reading for all those working in the health professions aimed at addressing the needs of those with severe physical, mental or emotional impairments.
Professor Howard Steele, New School for Social Research
This informative, comprehensive text is unique, and is destined to become an invaluable national and international resource on attachment issues in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Given the breadth and depth of this book, practitioners can use it
Table of Contents
About the Contributors vii
Foreword xiv
Acknowledgements xvi
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Dougal Julian Hare, Helen K Fletcher and Andrea Flood
Chapter 2 An Overview of Attachment Theory: Bowlby and Beyond 8
Helen K Fletcher and Deanna J Gallichan
Chapter 3 Attachment Relationships Between Parents and Their Children: The Impact of ‘The Loss of the Healthy Child’ 33
Helen K Fletcher
Chapter 4 Assessing Attachment Relationships in People with Intellectual Disabilities 59
Samantha Walker, Victoria Penketh, Hazel Lewis and Dougal Julian Hare
Chapter 5 Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attachment: A Clinician’s Perspective 79
Ewan Perry and Andrea Flood
Chapter 6 Maintaining the Bond: Working with People who are Described as Showing Challenging Behaviour Using a Framework Based on Attachment Theory 104
Allan Skelly
Chapter 7 Psychotherapy and Attachment Dynamics in People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Personal View 130
Pat Frankish
Chapter 8 Adult Attachment and Care Staff Functioning 151
Carlo Schuengel, Jennifer Clegg, J Clasien de Schipper and Sabina Kef
Chapter 9 Have a Heart: Helping Services to Provide Emotionally Aware Support 172
Amanda Shackleton
Chapter 10 Attachment Trauma and Pathological Mourning in Adults with Intellectual Disabilities 197
Deanna J Gallichan and Carol George
Chapter 11 Attachment, Personality Disorder and Offending: Clinical Implications 223
Lesley Steptoe, William R Lindsay, Caroline Finlay and Sandra Miller
Chapter 12 Getting Intimate: Using Attachment Theory to Understand Intimate Relationships in our Work with People with Intellectual Disabilities 244
Nancy Sheppard and Myooran Canagaratnam
Index 266
