Description: Bestselling informal guide to trauma and attachment theory, with accessible and engaging doodles. It explains how to recognize different attachment patterns and to help children who have experienced trauma. Ideal for parents or professionals caring for fostered and adopted children.
Brief description: Kim S. Golding CBE, BSc, MSc, D. Clin. Psy. AFBPsS is a clinical psychologist who works in Worcestershire, England where she was influential in the founding of the Integrated Service for Looked After Children - a multi-agency, holistic service providing support for foster, adoptive and residential parents, schools and the range of professionals supporting children growing up in care or in adoptive families. Kim was trained and mentored by Dan Hughes in the use of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). She was formerly on the board of the Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Institute supporting the use of DDP in Europe, USA and Canada. She accredits and trains professionals in the approach and has been invited to speak about this work internationally.
Review Quotes: Miriam Silver has a wonderful talent for explaining complex concepts in easier to understand, accessible, and engaging ways. She interweaves multiple important and helpful theories and models; and brings them to life by applying them to real-world examples and in fun doodles. Her books are such helpful guides and are brimming with powerful and useful ideas and knowledge in a small and concise format.--Karen Treisman, Clinical Psychologist, MBE, Tedx speaker, trainer, organizational consultant, and author