Attachment, trauma and resilience

Over a 25-year period Kate and Brian Cairns, who are social workers and trainers, fostered 12 children, along with their three birth children.

In this practical and moving book, they draw on their rich personal and professional experience to offer an insight into the realities of family life with children who have experienced loss, abuse and trauma. it vividly describes scenarios, they show how the family responded to children displaying powerful feelings and difficult behaviours.

They explore the ideas that helped them to make sense of day-to-day family life and offer suggestions on what to observe in children experiencing a range of difficulties and stress, and what can be done to promote recovery and resilience.

The book covers theory and research as well as what can be done to promote resilience and recovery in children who have experienced trauma.

Kate and Brian present different perspectives on this shared experience of fostering children. Kate’s writing focuses on trauma and brain injury and the theoretical and research basis that they used to help children recover. Brian’s work is more intensely practical, exploring day-to-day strategies to help promote resilience and encourage healing. Together, they offer a complete guide which covers the theory of trauma and attachment as well as practical suggestions to build resilience.

This book is for anyone caring for or working with children separated from their families.

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