Preface: becoming attached to attachment theory -- Love is a wondrous state: origins and early debates -- Social work and the attachment story: a felicitous bond? -- Shaping practice: prescribing assessment -- Practising attachment theory in child welfare -- Exhibiting disorganised attachment: not even wrong? -- Breaking the back of love: attachment goes neuro-molecular -- Coda: love reawakened?
Summary
This book offers an analysis of the limitations of child attachment theory as the basis for decision-making in child welfare practice, examining controversies and offering a new pedagogy that is responsive to the changing dynamics of contemporary families
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-156) and index
Notes
Online resource. Title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed January 5, 2021)
