Connecting with Kids through Stories: Using Narratives to Facilitate Attachment in Adopted Children - first ed. In Stock Now

This book is an accessible guide to Family Attachment Narrative Therapy for the parents of adopted or fostered children, and for the professionals who work with them. Providing a thorough theoretical grounding, and detailed information on therapeutic techniques and how to assess progress, the authors show parents how to create their own therapeutic stories to promote increased attachment and improved behavior in their child. They describe how different kinds of narratives can help with specific difficulties and illustrate their techniques with the story of a fictional family who develop their own narratives to help their adopted child heal.