Attachment Therapy

Just when life is moving along at a nice pace, surprise! a little bump in the road appears.  No matter how minor the bump, it's still a change in plans, my plans!.

For us, our bump in the road is the need for attachment therapy.  I guess some sort of therapy was inevitable for our family, with having six children adopted from "hard places", I'm just surprised it happens to be this particular child.  

I was missing some of the more subtle signs of attachment issues.  When we finally talked to our social worker she said this is "absolutely attachment related".  We have a fabulous social worker whom we have known since before we brought our oldest son home.  She never said "duh, you should know this!". She simply said this is who you need to call and what you need to do.  

We are now in the process of coordinating schedules to make a weekly standing appointment with the attachment therapist part of our new normal routine.  We are looking forward to helping our daughter, and really, our entire family. 

When we met with the therapist for the first time last week, she suggested some books and resources that may be helpful.  I haven't had much time to go through all the suggestions myself, but I thought I would pass along the recommendations:


Heather Forbes Beyond Consequences
The Whole Brained Child
Parenting From the Inside Out
Attachment-Focused Parenting




Have you found any of these books particularly helpful?  Anything that I should be reading that isn't on the list?  Has attachment therapy been helpful for your family?  I'm all ears!




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