Bookedited by Helen K. Fletcher, Andrea Flood and Dougal Julian Hare.
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. An overview of attachment theory: Bowlby and beyond
3. Attachment relationships between parents and their children: The impact of 'the loss of the healthy child'
4. Assessing attachment relationships in people with intellectual disabilities
5. Autism Spectrum Disorder and attachment: A clinician's perspective
6. Maintaining the bond: Working with people who are described as showing challenging behaviour using a framework based on attachment theory
7. Psychotherapy and attachment dynamics in people with intellectual disabilities: A personal view
8. Adult attachment and care staff functioning
9. Have a heart: Helping services to provide emotionally aware support
10. Attachment trauma and pathological mourning in adults with intellectual disabilities
11. Attachment, personality disorder and offending: Clinical implications
12. Getting Intimate: Using attachment theory to understand intimate relationships in our work with people with intellectual disabilities
Index.