Raising Parents: Attachment, Parenting and Child Safety

This book provides a systematic account of parental behaviour and the means of identifying and addressing inadequate parenting. It is intended for professionals who work with children or with adults who were harmed as children, and its central concern is with parents who endanger their children or whose children may endanger themselves or others.Understanding and helping troubled parents to become secure and balanced people is of crucial importance for the parents themselves, for their children and for society at large. This book is a guide to understanding parents as people who have children - as opposed to seeing them as existing solely in terms of their ability to fulfill their children's needs.Overall the book provides a systematic basis for thinking about:how and for what purpose parental behavior is organised;what its experiential, contextual, and neurological components are; andhow children's responses are tied to their parents' behaviour.Raising Parents will be essential reading for professionals and practitioners in the field, including psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists ands ocial workers as well as those taking courses in attachment and psychopathology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology and behavioural courses in psychiatry.