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A trust-based intervention for complex developmental trauma: a case study from a residential treatment center
- Authors:
- PURVIS Karyn B., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 31(4), 2014, pp.355-368.
- Publisher:
- Springer
This case study, conducted in a Midwest residential treatment center, reports results from an attachment-based intervention that addressed the needs of a 16-year-old female, Rachel. Rachel had a long and documented history of severe abuse and neglect before her adoption from a Bulgarian orphanage at age 12 and numerous psychiatric hospitalizations in the years subsequent. Upon entering this residential treatment center, Rachel did not respond to traditional residential treatment modalities and was considered one of the most difficult children the facility had ever attempted to help. After the intensive attachment-based intervention for Rachel, her adoptive parents, and facility staff, dramatic increases in pro-social and attachment behaviors were noted, as well as a significant decrease in violent and self-injurious behaviors. The intervention consisted of three phases of differing levels of intensity and was designed to address the attachment system and related sub-systems in order to facilitate the development of healthy attachments. (Publisher abstract)
Working with the risk of suicide in young people
- Author:
- BRIGGS Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 16(2), November 2002, pp.135-148.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Provides a psychoanalytic framework for working with adolescents at risk of suicide. The article locates the discussion in the context of current knowledge of patterns of suicidality, and focuses on discussing internal dynamics and the adolescents' relationships with the body. It concludes that a containing reflective space is the most effective way of reducing suicide risk in each individual case.
Suicidal ideation in adolescent clinical sample: attachment patterns and clinical implications
- Authors:
- LESSARD Jocelyne C., MORETTI Marlene M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adolescence, 21(4), August 1998, pp.383-395.
- Publisher:
- Academic Press
This article investigates the relationship between attachment patterns and suicidal ideation in a clinical sample of adolescents. Participants were assessed on level of current ideation through self-report questionnaire. Categorical analyses indicated that youth with predominantly fearful or preoccupied attachment were more likely to endorse suicidal ideation than were predominantly secure or dismissing youth. The importance of attachment theory for understanding the factors underlying suicidal ideation in troubled youth is discussed and implications for therapeutic intervention are presented.
Problems suffered by children due to the effects of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)
- Author:
- LOWENSTEIN L.F.
- Journal article citation:
- Justice of the Peace, 15.6.02, 2002, pp.464-466.
- Publisher:
- Butterworth
Describes the impact that relationship break-ups and adverse alienation procedures have on the child or children from damaged relationships.
Psychiatric staff as attachment figures: understanding management problems in psychiatric services in the light of attachment theory
- Author:
- ADSHEAD Gwen
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 172, January 1998, pp.64-69.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Attachment theory argues that psychological development and functioning are affected by our earliest attachments to care-givers. Failed or pathological attachment in childhood may give rise to repetition of maladaptive attachment patterns in adulthood. This article provides an analysis of therapeutic relationships in the light of attachment theory. Concludes that an attachment perspective may be useful for understanding common behavioural disturbances in general psychiatric settings, and supports the use of clinical strategies which focus on containment of arousal and the management of anxiety states.