NAGALRO is the Professional Association for Children's
Guardians, Family Court Advisors, and Independent Social
Workers. I am a former Council Member, and currently
serve on the Editorial Board of it's Journal 'Seen and
Heard'.
Dr Crittenden is a leading international authority on
attachment theory, having developed the Dynamic Maturational
Model of Attachment, and some of the attachment measures
that I use. The website provides articles and
information on attachment theory and measures of attachment.
This website details a study of adoptions that made use
of attachment story stems and the Adult Attachment Interview
- two measures that are key to my work. The articles
here are helpful in understanding how these measures work.
The International Association for the Study of Attachment
(IASA) is a multi-disciplinary association of mental health
professionals who wish to improve mental health treatment
and assessment. To this end, itsfocus is on how humans cope
with threat and the effects of this on later adaptation or
maladaptation. I am a founder member and a member of
the Forensic Committee (applications to Court Proceedings)
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This is the measure of Adult Attachment developed by
Carol George and Judith Solomon, that uses fictional
narratives of adult to assess attachment styles. There
are interesting articles on adult attachment here.
My aim is to thoroughly integrate my observations and
judgments with appropriate research. This site is a
good source of research summaries on particular issues in
Social Work.
On a completely different note, we have a holiday cottage
in Swanage, Dorset, on the Purbeck peninsula that is
available for holidays and shortbreaks. This website
contains full information about the cottage.
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