Main description:

This textbook provides an up-to-date guide to the application of Attachment Narrative Therapy (ANT), a model that combines concepts and techniques from systemic family therapy, narrative therapy and theory and attachment theory. Edited and with contributions from leading practitioners of ANT, this book brings together illustrations of its applications in a variety of clinical settings. It offers practical guidance and the latest research from clinicians who are now advancing its application. Another important feature is illustration of how practitioners have developed ANT to incorporate the latest ideas and methods from trauma theory and neuro-biology. It will provide a valuable new resource for practitioners, teachers and students of systemic practice, family therapy, clinical psychology, counselling and psychotherapy.

Contents:

Introduction to the Book.- Attachment narrative therapy.- "Am I a good mother?": when attachment bonds have been disrupted by chronic shame.- Supporting Parents of Children with an Intellectual Disability using Attachment Narrative Therapy.- Taking an insider position to working with family conflict, violence and domestic abuse: contributions from Attachment Narrative Therapy.- Working Systemically with Family Violence and Attachment Dilemmas.- SAFE, A manualised version of Attachment Narrative Therapy designed for families of children with an autism diagnosis.- Self-harm: Moving from Dyads to Triads.- Fostering Home-School relationships: SAFE with SCHOOLS.- Long Term Supervision in Post-qualification Systemic Psychotherapy: An Attachment Narrative Approach.- Setting Up an ANT-based Systemic Family Therapy Clinic: Experiences, recommendations and extensions.- Bereavement Attachment Narrative Therapy (BANT) : An ANT approach to working with Grief.