Main description:

Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives explores how attachment-based ideas can be used in clinical practice by offering a practical and sophisticated exposition of clinical approaches.

This new edition offers an updated overview of the integrations of attachment, systemic and narrative theory, and practice incorporating key developments in developmental trauma, intergenerational trauma and neuroscience of the emotional brain. It shows how early emotional experiences set the tone of the narratives we develop about our lives and how these in turn shape our emotional connections. This edition is more oriented towards activities and features more visual representations of problematic patterns of interaction, showing their significance for the family members. It also uses clinical examples to provide guidance on using attachment narrative therapy in different clinical contexts and with various client groups.

The book provides practical guidance for a range of mental health professionals including family therapists, child, adolescent and adult psychotherapists, clinical psychologists and social workers, enabling them to apply this approach in a range of contexts.

Contents:

Foreword to the First Edition by John Byng-Hall; 1. Theory and Formulation in Attachment Narrative Therapy; 2. Blame, Choice and Responsibility: Corrective and replicative scripts in the family life cycle; 3. Life Cycle Transitions and Attachment Narratives; 4. Love and Sexuality. Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives: Applications with couples; 5. Problems in Managing Arousal: Working with diagnoses of ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder; 6. Problems of Addiction: Alcohol dependency and eating distress; 7. Living with Fear: Relational danger and violence in the family; 8. Trauma and Dissociation; 9. Loss, Grief and Attachment; 10. Supervision and Consultation of Systemic Therapy and Practice; 11. Formats for Exploration