“For child welfare professionals, attachment theory provides a degree of comfort, succour against the glare of lives in the living, a handy vocabulary, a diagnostic gaze, learned-sounding re-descriptions of messy relationships and often a foil for moral judgements.”
White, Gibson, Wastell & Walsh (2020)
This course maps the theory of attachment, considers its value as a construct in understanding approaches to parenting, explores its relevance to child welfare and family law work and evaluates its effectiveness in helping keep families together.
It should take approximately 1 hour to complete