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Attachment Theory in Clinical Work With Children.

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Attachment Theory in Clinical Work With Children

Edited by David Oppenheim and Douglas F. Goldsmith, Guilford Press, New York, 2007, 256 pp., $32.

This book is the culmination of over 15 years of development and collaboration by a great many people actively involved in both research and the clinical application of attachment theory. The compiled articles represent the work of 27 collaborators seeking to facilitate the integration of the latest research findings in attachment theory to the realities of hands-on clinical work with children, their parents and their families. This is critical work if we are ever going to have a hope of breaking through the cycle of transmission of broken and inadequate relationships from one generation to the next and the resulting dysfunction, suffering and economic costs that are the result.

The book is divided into two parts. Part one applies research-based assessments of attachment to a clinical population. Each chapter in Part one...

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