The Challenge of Attachment for Caregiving Book

The predicaments that bring adults into therapy can often be traced to unsatisfactory experiences of caregiving in childhood. If our capacity for caregiving derives mainly from our own experience of receiving care, then a clearer understanding of how this process of interaction works is crucial for the professional caregiver. The Challenge of Attachment for Caregiving proposes a model for the development of caregiving, and shows its relation to therapeutic practice while complementing and extending attachment theory. The authors place the instinctive systems for caregiving and careseeking within a theory relating them to other systems of the self, and present the material in a form that enables the therapist to formulate hyptheses about a client's predicament and their way of relating to the therapist and then explore and test these hypotheses in the course of therapy.Read More