Description
Book SynopsisThis book offers an analysis of the limitations of child attachment theory as the basis for decision-making in child welfare practice, examining controversies and offering a new pedagogy that is responsive to the changing dynamics of contemporary families.
Trade Review"Reassessing Attachment Theory in Child Welfare is an incredibly valuable intervention into debates about the use of attachment theory and research by practitioners. The authors highlight major discrepancies between the accounts of attachment of researches and of practitioners and offer some timely cautions. They also present an insightful account of why attachment theory - or, at least, a cut-down version of it - has had such appeal for child welfare practice. A terrific contribution to the literature." Matthew Gibson, University of Birmingham
Table of ContentsPreface: becoming attached to attachment theory Love is a wondrous state: origins and early debates Social work and the attachment story: a felicitous bond? Shaping practice: prescribing assessment Practising attachment theory in child welfare Exhibiting disorganised attachment: not even wrong? Breaking the back of love: attachment goes neuro-molecular Coda: love reawakened?
