Healing Relational Trauma with Attachment-Focused Interventions: Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy with Children and Families

by Daniel A. Hughes, Kim S. Golding, Julie Hudson

From the founder of DDP, this updated and comprehensive guide is the authoritative text on DDP. DDP is an attachment-focused treatment for children and adolescents who experience abuse and neglect and who are now living in stable foster and adoptive families. Its central interventions are influenced by enhanced knowledge about the structure and functions of the brain, as well as the latest findings regarding developmental trauma and the related attachment problems it brings.

Genres: Psychology

352 pages, Hardcover

Published January 8, 2019

Reviews

[Karen Hargedon · Rating 4 out of 5]

The approach makes sense and works. It is written mostly for professionals working with kids in foster care or adopted from foster care although there is a good amount of guidance for parents. Older adoptions are classified as kids adopted from 5 years old to 11 years old. It would be helpful to have more on kids adopted after the age of 12.
I particularly would like to see more on preparing parents for the hypothetical things that may come up so that they are prepared when the do in fact come up. Dealing particularly with how to respond to the most difficult things.