Psychotherapy with Infants and Young Children: Repairing the Effects of Stress and Trauma on Early Attachment

Psychotherapy with Infants and Young Children is a strong choice for therapists and clinicians, children and families who want practical, reliable insight into trauma.

This eloquent book presents an empirically supported treatment that engages parents as the most powerful agents of their young children’s healthy development. Child–parent psychotherapy promotes the child’s emotional health and builds the parent’s capacity to nurture and protect, particularly when stress and trauma have disrupted the quality of the parent–child relationship. The book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework together with practical strategies for combining play, developmental guidance, trauma-focused interventions, and concrete assistance with problems of living.

• Key themes include trauma, attachment, stress.
• Written for therapists and clinicians, children and families.
• Supports deeper learning in child psychology with practical, readable insight.

Ideal for therapists and clinicians, children and families looking for a thoughtful resource on child psychology. Available from Psychology Reads, this title fits both focused study and everyday personal growth.