Integrative Parenting: Strategies for Raising Children Affected by Attachment Trauma

Parenting strategies to use with EMDR and family therapist team to understand your traumatized child and improve attachment security.

About the Book

“An accompanying parent’s guide filled with effective techniques to help challenging children with traumatic pasts.

Designed as a manual to complement the clinician’s guide, Integrative Team Treatment for Attachment Trauma in Children: Family Therapy and EMDR, this book is written for birth, foster, or adoptive parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, or anyone who may be raising a child who has experienced attachment loss and trauma. Their severe behaviors can often leave caregivers feeling confused, frightened, hurt, and overwhelmed, as they struggle to make sense of a massive amount of information―and misinformation―that exists on attachment issues.

This book provides understanding, validation, and solutions for these caregivers. In it, the authors explain their innovative model of “team” treatment that includes an EMDR therapist and a family therapist. Best used in conjunction with therapeutic help, it walks readers through an array of parenting strategies that will lead them to a deeper understanding of their traumatized child, and better enable them to calm their behavior and improve their attachment security so they can heal. 7 illustrations”

—Description from publisher

Table of Contents

Foreword by Douglas Vincent
Introduction
1. Scared Children, Not Scary Children
2. Creating Connections
3. Solutions to Challenging Behaviors
4. Becoming a Happier Parent
5. Boundaries and Consequences with Love and Attunement
Closing Thoughts

—Description from publisher

Book Access

Purchase/Subscription Required

Wesselmann, D., Schweitzer, C., & Armstrong, S. (2014a). Integrative parenting: Strategies for raising children affected by attachment trauma. New York, NY: W. W. Norton. https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393708172/about-the-book/product-details