Attachment, Trauma and Resilience [Paperback]

Kate Cairns (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 182 pages
• Publisher: Ba for Adoption & Fostering (January 6, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 190369910X
• ISBN-13: 978-1903699102
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,784,632 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not a dry academic book, but a powerful and moving personal account, November 22, 2007

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C. Holmquist "Chris Holmquist" (Cardiff, Wales, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Attachment, Trauma and Resilience (Paperback)

This book was recommended to me as a very good account of attachment theory and how it can be used to understand the experience and behaviour of adopted children and children in foster care. What I didn't realise until I picked it up was that it would be such a powerful and moving book. I was gripped from the first page and literally moved to tears by the compassionate, but unsentimental account of the author and her family caring for children profoundly hurt by their earlier experiences of neglect and abuse. From my own work in the fields of fostering and adoption I am familiar with the harrowing stories of many children, but I have never before read anything which captured this so accurately. At the same time it also provides an amazing example of how genuine caring and compassion combined with a thorough understanding of trauma and loss can bring a degree of healing to traumatised children. I think that this is a book which should be read by everybody working with or caring for children who have experienced difficult early life experiences, but it is also a book so beautifully written that almost anybody will find it absorbing and illuminating.