Main description:

Attachment in Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Clinician s Guide to Practice and Research is the first book to explore the clinical difficulties associated with attachment relationships in people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. * Draws together knowledge from disparate sources in a definitive new resource for clinicians working in this area * A growing body of evidence-based approaches in this area are underpinned by attachment theory, including direct intervention and the use of attachment theory to understand interactions and relationships * Presents and integrates cutting-edge models and approaches that have previously been available only to specialists * Written by mainstream practitioners who are active in clinical work and research; focused on real-world applications, with illustrative case examples throughout

Contents:

About the Contributors vii Foreword xiv Acknowledgements xvi Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Dougal Julian Hare, Helen K Fletcher and Andrea Flood Chapter 2 An Overview of Attachment Theory: Bowlby and Beyond 8 Helen K Fletcher and Deanna J Gallichan Chapter 3 Attachment Relationships Between Parents and Their Children: The Impact of The Loss of the Healthy Child 33 Helen K Fletcher Chapter 4 Assessing Attachment Relationships in People with Intellectual Disabilities 59 Samantha Walker, Victoria Penketh, Hazel Lewis and Dougal Julian Hare Chapter 5 Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attachment: A Clinician s Perspective 79 Ewan Perry and Andrea Flood Chapter 6 Maintaining the Bond: Working with People who are Described as Showing Challenging Behaviour Using a Framework Based on Attachment Theory 104 Allan Skelly Chapter 7 Psychotherapy and Attachment Dynamics in People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Personal View 130 Pat Frankish Chapter 8 Adult Attachment and Care Staff Functioning 151 Carlo Schuengel, Jennifer Clegg, J Clasien de Schipper and Sabina Kef Chapter 9 Have a Heart: Helping Services to Provide Emotionally Aware Support 172 Amanda Shackleton Chapter 10 Attachment Trauma and Pathological Mourning in Adults with Intellectual Disabilities 197 Deanna J Gallichan and Carol George Chapter 11 Attachment, Personality Disorder and Offending: Clinical Implications 223 Lesley Steptoe, William R Lindsay, Caroline Finlay and Sandra Miller Chapter 12 Getting Intimate: Using Attachment Theory to Understand Intimate Relationships in our Work with People with Intellectual Disabilities 244 Nancy Sheppard and Myooran Canagaratnam Index 266