Attachment Parenting: Developing Connections and Healing Children. Arthur Becker-Weidman & Deborah Shell, $32.95

Attachment Parenting describes a comprehensive approach to parenting children who have a history of neglect, abuse, orphanage care, or other experiences that may interfere with the normal development of attachment between parent and child. Grounded in attachment theory, Attachment Parenting gives parents, therapists, educators, and child-welfare and residential-treatment professionals the tools and skills necessary to help these children.

With an approach rooted in dyadic developmental psychotherapy, which is an evidence-based, effective, and empirically validated treatment for complex trauma and disorders of attachment, Arthur Becker-Weidman and Deborah Shell provide practical and immediately usable approaches and methods to help children develop a healthier and more secure attachment. Chapters on sensory integration, art therapy for parents, narratives, and Theraplay give parents specific therapeutic activities that can be done at home to improve the quality of the child's attachment with the parent. And chapters on neuropsychological issues, mindfulness, and parent's use of self will also help parents directly. The book includes two chapters by parents discussing what worked for them, providing inspiration to parents and demonstrating that there is hope.

Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children. Daniel Hughes, $31.50

An expert clinician brings attachment theory into the realm of parenting skills. Attachment security and affect regulation have long been buzzwords in therapy circles, but rarely are they effectively applied to basic parenting skills. Here, a leading attachment specialist brings attachment work inside the therapy room to the outside, equipping caregivers with practical parenting techniques rooted in attachment theory and research.

Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children, 2nd Edition. Daniel Hughes, Book $52.95

Developing Attachment: Family Therapy Examples Part 1 – Adolescents. Daniel Hughes, $99.95

Developing Attachment: Family Therapy Examples Part 2 – Children. Daniel Hughes, $99.95

Developing Attachment: Family Therapy Examples Part 3 – Parents. Daniel Hughes, $99.95

Developing Attachment: Family Therapy Examples 3 DVD Set. Daniel Hughes, $259.95

Developing Attachment: Family Therapy Examples is a three-part DVD series presenting the attachment-focused treatment model developed by Dr. Daniel Hughes.  Part 1 introduces attachment and inter-subjectivity that guides Dr. Hughes' model of treatment, and demonstrates this model in two therapy sessions with adolescents and their parents.  Volume 2 looks at therapy with children and their parents and volume 3 focuses on therapy with the parents alone. 

See also:

• Attachment-Focused Family Therapy. Daniel Hughes.
• Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children. Daniel Hughes.
• Building the Bonds of Attachment: a DVD Presentation with Daniel Hughes.
• Facilitating Developmental Attachment: the Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster and Adopted Children. Daniel Hughes.

The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are, 2nd Edition. Daniel Siegel, $59.50

This bestselling book put the field of interpersonal neurobiology on the map for many tens of thousands of readers. Daniel Siegel goes beyond the nature and nurture divisions that traditionally have constrained much of our thinking about development, exploring the role of interpersonal experiences in forging key connections in the brain. He presents a groundbreaking integrative framework for understanding the emergence of the growing, feeling, communicating mind. Illuminating how and why interpersonal neurobiology matters, this book is essential reading for clinicians, educators, researchers, and students interested in promoting healthy development and resilience across the lifespan. New to this edition:

• Incorporates significant scientific and technical advances
• Expanded discussions of cutting-edge topics, including neuroplasticity, epigenetics, mindfulness, and the neural correlates of consciousness
• Epilogue on domains of integration — specific pathways to well-being and therapeutic change
• Useful pedagogical features, such as diagrams and an extensive glossary

Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications, 2nd Edition. Edited by Jude Cassidy & Phillip Shaver, $70.50

This comprehensive work is more than just the standard reference on attachment — it has become indispensable in the field. Coverage includes the origins and development of attachment theory; biological and evolutionary perspectives; and the role of attachment processes in personality, relationships, and mental health across the lifespan. The second edition has been substantially revised and expanded to incorporate significant recent advances in theory, research, and clinical applications.

Real Life Heroes: a Life Storybook for Children, 2nd Edition. Richard Kagan, $42.50

Real Life Heroes: a Life Story Book for Children is a therapeutic resource that helps children overcome the difficulties they may face, including divorce, separation, placement, learning problems, serious illness, and hospitalization. The workbook highlights and preserves for children the moments in their lives when “important” people—family, friends, and community—showed kindness, caring, understanding, and courage, giving the child a sense of value that can promote transformation of troubled children from victims into tomorrow's heroes. The life storybook is especially useful for work with children in foster and adoptive families and group care programs.

Theraplay: Helping Parents and Children Build Better Relationships through Attachment-Based Play, 3rd Edition. Phyllis Booth & Ann Jernberg, $69.00

Theraplay is a pioneering application of attachment theory to clinical work that helps parents learn and practice how to provide the playful engagement, empathic responsiveness, and clear guidance that lead to secure attachment and lifelong mental health in their children. This third edition of the groundbreaking book Theraplay shows how to use play to engage children in interactions that lead to competence, self-regulation, self-esteem, and trust.

Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents: How to Foster Resilience through Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency. Margaret  Blaustein & Kristine Kinniburgh, $40.95

Grounded in theory and research on complex childhood trauma, this book provides an accessible, flexible, and comprehensive framework for intervention with children and adolescents and their caregivers. It is packed with practical clinical tools that are applicable in a range of settings, from outpatient treatment centers to residential programs. Rather than presenting a one-size-fits-all treatment model, the authors show how to plan and organize individualized interventions that promote resilience, strengthen child-caregiver relationships, and restore developmental competencies derailed by chronic, multiple stressors.