This exciting new book explores attachment, alliance and therapeutic practice. Grounded in theory and built on new research findings based on adult attachment styles, it brings together ideas on attachment and the connections that counsellors and therapists make with the people who seek their help. Features: • Applies alliance and therapeutic practice (traditionally used with individual clients) to family and systemic therapy (where there are several inter-connected relationships to establish - a more complex scenario altogether) • Key aspects of this book are self-reflexivity in the therapy professions, and the connections between professionals' own life experience and work experience • Builds on new research findings conducted by the author and based on adult attachment styles Table of Contents: 1. Alliance Building 2. Why Therapists or Counsellors Need to Know about Attachment 3. The Impact of the Personal on the Professional Self 4. The Relationship between Attachment Styles and Alliance: Therapists’ Stories 5. Continuous Professional Development and the Role of Supervision. About the Author: Yusmarhaini Yusof is Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Universiti Utara Malaysia and mother of two daughters. Her background includes Visiting Researcher at Department of Sociology (formerly known as School of Applied Social Science), Durham University, UK, and Officer at the Women’s Affairs Department, Malaysia. She has co-edited two books on social work published by UUM Press in 2005 and trained as a therapist at the University Centre for the Child and Family (UCCF), University of Michigan Ann Arbor.
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