The Circle of Security Intervention: Enhancing Attachment in Early Parent-Child Relationships Author: Bert Powell MA Glen Cooper MA Kent Hoffman RelD Bob Marvin PhD Charles H. Zeanah Jr. MD | Language: English | ISBN:
1593853149 | Format: EPUB
The Circle of Security Intervention: Enhancing Attachment in Early Parent-Child Relationships Description
Presenting both a theoretical foundation and proven strategies for helping caregivers become more attuned and responsive to their young children's emotional needs (ages 0-5), this is the first comprehensive presentation of the Circle of Security (COS) intervention. The book lucidly explains the conceptual underpinnings of COS and demonstrates the innovative attachment-based assessment and intervention strategies in rich clinical detail, including three chapter-length case examples. Reproducible forms and handouts can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. COS is an effective research-based program that has been implemented throughout the world with children and parents experiencing attachment difficulties.
The authors are corecipients of the 2013 Bowlby-Ainsworth Award, presented by the New York Attachment Consortium, for developing and implementing COS.
- Hardcover: 396 pages
- Publisher: The Guilford Press; 1 edition (September 20, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1593853149
- ISBN-13: 978-1593853143
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
In order to elucidate the profundity of The Circle of Security Intervention (COSI) by Bert Powell, Glen Cooper, and Kent Hoffman, I would like to paraphrase a quote that Albert Einstein wrote to Niehls Bohr regarding quantum mechanics: The opposite of a simple truth is falsity. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth. The reason for employing this hermeneutic in reviewing COSI is because this work's simplicity (a profound truth) is its brilliance (another profound truth). In COSI, Powell et al. make the complexities of care-giver and child attachment highly accessible. Their protocol for helping caregivers to form secure attachment bonds with their children offers a very practical approach grounded in decades of research on attachment theory. COSI represents a proven and effective program that will not doubt empower practitioners working to facilitate secure attachment between care-givers and their children. Moreover, Powell et al. utilize a precision in nomenclature that de-pathologizes insecure attachment in such a way that will provide the aforementioned practitioners with a practical language to aid care-givers in facing and overcoming their own relational dynamics that cause their children to form maladapted relational patterns that will follow them throughout their lives. In this context, COSI is the perfect text for undergraduate and graduate classes that explore attachment theory. Furthermore, social workers, mental health counselors, psychologists, and social service agencies would do well to engage this text and search for ways to implement COSI as a part of their best practices.
In light of the above, the golden nugget hidden within this river of wisdom are what Powell et al. refer to as the "core sensitivities.
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