Provides a comprehensive overview of attachment theory; how attachment issues manifest; and how they can be treated. An essential guide for psychologists, social workers, and clinicians, as well as foster and adoptive parents.

Introduction -- Historical perspective -- Roots of attachment -- Personal and social competencies: the attachment foundation -- Disrupted attachment -- Assessment -- Corrective attachment therapy: basic theoretical and treatment issues -- Corrective attachment therapy: methods and interventions -- Corrective attachment therapy: the family system -- Adult and couple attachment -- Intensive outpatient psychotherapy -- Corrective attachment parenting -- Foster care, adoption, and the child welfare system.