Veronica Read is a Group Analyst and an Independent Educational Consultant. She writes and delivers workshops on attachment for early years practitioners. She worked for many years in a local education authority (LEA) as a specialist teacher where she had extensive experience of working with children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.

"The author of this excellent book has taken quite a scholarly approach, which she uses to convey quite complex issues. You can rest assured, however, because she manages to masterfully convey important material and findings in an accessible manner. There is a great deal of material about the developing brain and the extent of the impact that the emotional environment has on young children in our care. It is vital that we translate attachment principles and put them into practice in our settings for the sake of the youngest and most vunerable children in our care, and this book is the vital tool to help you do just that." - Martine Horvath, eye magazine

• 1. The Emotional Environment and Brain Development2. Beginnings 3. The Strange Situation: Understanding about secure and insecure attachments 4. A Unique Child 5. Positive Relationships: Why the key person approach really matters 6. Enabling Environments: How the wider context and its living web of relationships influences the core of early Years practice 7. Learning and Development: Attachment, emotional growth and learning 8. Endings: Arriving back where we began

Veronica Read is a Group Analyst and an Independent Educational Consultant. She writes and delivers workshops on attachment for early years practitioners. She worked for many years in a local education authority (LEA) as a specialist teacher where she had extensive experience of working with children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.

"The author of this excellent book has taken quite a scholarly approach, which she uses to convey quite complex issues. You can rest assured, however, because she manages to masterfully convey important material and findings in an accessible manner. There is a great deal of material about the developing brain and the extent of the impact that the emotional environment has on young children in our care. It is vital that we translate attachment principles and put them into practice in our settings for the sake of the youngest and most vunerable children in our care, and this book is the vital tool to help you do just that." - Martine Horvath, eye magazine

• 1. The Emotional Environment and Brain Development2. Beginnings 3. The Strange Situation: Understanding about secure and insecure attachments 4. A Unique Child 5. Positive Relationships: Why the key person approach really matters 6. Enabling Environments: How the wider context and its living web of relationships influences the core of early Years practice 7. Learning and Development: Attachment, emotional growth and learning 8. Endings: Arriving back where we began