Attachment-based Practice with Adults (PDF)

This interactive practice guide offers a new approach to attachment-based practice with adults. By integrating audio, visual and written information around five characters and their stories, the guide brings attachment theory to life in a conceptually clear but dynamic, engaging and hands-on way. This guide offers: an introduction to contemporary attachment theory and its links with neuro-biology a practical, user-friendly interactive workbook for frontline practitioners to help them understand adult attachment theory and its relevance to their work a specific but flexible interviewing strategy (the LEARN Model) which helps practitioners to work with confidence in an attachment-informed way frameworks, tools and other resources to assist practitioners who want to use a relationship-based, attachment-informed approach a work-based resource that can be used by individuals, teams, co-workers, supervisors or teachers / trainers to reflect on and improve the preparation, use and support of attachment thinking in practice an approach that speaks to diverse professions and modalities, and which can be used in a multidisciplinary environment by both adult and children's services practitioners ways to increase the confidence of practitioners to act as change agents with their clients.With five detailed case studies and attachment-based interviews (in written and audio format), step-by-step commentary, illustrations and practical exercises to apply the learning throughout.