Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children

(Ellen F. Wachtel, 1999)
"This important contribution to the clinical literature has the added bonus of being as riveting a page-turner as any novel."


(Karen B. Walant, 1999)
"A courageous, innovative, and clinically sensitive work..."


(Richard Bromfield, 1999)
"...offers clinicians a sturdy framework and practical strategy for facing these overwhelming cases."


Book Description
"With the unmistakable authority of a clinician, Dan Hughes builds a stirring story around the composite figure of Katie-a fragmented, tormented, isolated little girl in foster care whose terror, shame, rage and despair drive her to deeds like lacing the family hamburger with her own feces-in order to expose the tragedy of the attachment-impaired child. A Jason Aronson Book"


About the Author
Daniel A. Hughes, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in Waterville, Maine, where he specializes in child abuse and neglect, attachment, foster care, and adoption. He provides consultation to family services programs and also to therapists, case managers, and parents struggling with the treatment of attachment deficits in children. Dr. Hughes is the author of Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster and Adopted Children.


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With the unmistakable authority of a clinician, Dan Hughes builds a stirring story around the composite figure of Katie-a fragmented, tormented, isolated little girl in foster care whose terror, shame, rage and despair drive her to deeds like lacing the family hamburger with her own feces-in order to expose the tragedy of the attachment-impaired child.


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