Everyday Parenting with Security and Love: Using PACE to Provide Foundations for Attachment

Golding, a clinical psychologist and author, helps parents of children and young people with relationship difficulties related to early attachment experiences, as well as practitioners supporting these families, assist their children in developing security and overcome early fears and traumas, through therapeutic parenting based on Dan Hughes’ Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and Practice model, which involves a parenting attitude of playfulness, acceptance, curiosity, and empathy (PACE). The book is meant to complement the author’s Foundations for Attachment Programme, a six-session program that emphasizes four challenges of parenting these children: experiences with blocked trust, fears of connection with reciprocal relationships, experiences with high levels of shame, and miscuing attachment needs through a pattern of expressed and hidden needs. The book details these challenges and how to build emotional connections with children, how to provide support for behavior while building connections, self-care, the significance of parents exploring their own attachment history, and the dangers of blocked care. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)