Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust & Love
By:Michael Orlans
Terry M. Levy
Attachment is the deep connection that children and parents/caregivers establish early in life. This connection is basic to very aspect of a child’s development affecting emotional and social development as well as the way the brain develops. Unfortunately, insecure attachment and attachment disorders are more common than we realize.Healing Parents gives parents/caregivers the information, tools, support, self-awareness, and hope they need to help a wounded child heal emotional wounds and improve behaviorally, socially, and morally.
This book is a toolbox filled with practical strategies and research that helps parents/caregivers understand their child, learn to respond in a constructive way, and create a healthy environment. Parents/caregivers will learn to develop their child’s positive beliefs and establish trust by emphasizing respect, providing appropriate limits, consistent structure, and being a positive role model.
Based on 60 years of combined experience doing therapy, teaching, consulting, and research related to children and families, Michael Orlans, M.A. and , Ph.D. have created a guide designed to provide parents/caregivers of wounded children the information and skills necessary to create a healing environment.
Table of Contents
Introduction • Attachment: The Core • Know Your Child • Know Yourself • Corrective Attachment Parenting: Basic Principles • Corrective Attachment Parenting: Skills & Solutions • Attachment and the Adoptive Family • Attachment and Foster Care • Epilogue
Also by these authors: Attachment, Trauma, and Healing: Understanding and Treating Attachment Disorder in Children and Families
Price: $34.95
CWLA Stock Number: 0968
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN-13: 9781587600968
