Book: Developing Attachment
Developing Attachment is a workbook for building up a secure relationship with children or adults with severe intellectual or multiple disabilities. By building up a secure relationship they can be stimulated to develop further.
This book is about the elements that are necessary in order to build up an attachment relationship with children or adults with a severe intellectual disability or with multiple disabilities. The importance of building up an attachment relationship is based on the attachment theory.
The book aims to give information to caregivers who provide daily care to these very vulnerable children. We show how caregivers enter into a relationship with four clients at Bartiméus. In the text we generally refer to children, but of course the text can also be applied to developing an attachment relationship with adults with severe intellectual or multiple disabilities.
It is also suitable for educational programmes at schools or within educational centres.
Author: Paula Sterkenburg