Professor David Howe OBE works in the Centre for Research on the Child and Family at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He has research, writing and teaching interests in child abuse and neglect, adoption, and children's development, and was founding editor of the Blackwell Science journal, Child and Family Social Work (1996-2001). Other publications include On Being a Client: Understanding the Process of Counselling & Psychotherapy (Sage, 1993), Introduction to Social Work Theory: Making Sense in Practice (Avebury, 1987, and still selling) and Adopters on Adoption (British Association for Adoption and Fostering, 1996).

'This is an important and impressive book and an invaluable contribution to the field.' - Anna Flanigan, YoungMinds Magazine 'This book is clearly organised and accessible, making it easy for the practitioner to consult relevant sections...Howe's final sentence sums up the message of this generally excellent book: 'if relationships are where things developmentally can go wrong, then relationships are where they are most likely to be put right.' - Jeanne Kaniuk - Adoption and Fostering 'A scholarly and very readable piece of work that will be of interest to academics as well as clinicians.' - Journal of Advanced Nursing 'There are some books that you pick up and think, 'I really ought to read that' and you approach them with a sense of dread mitigated only by grim determination. And then you start reading them, and you're hooked. This book was one of them.' - Accord Magazine for the Association of Christian Councellors

• PrefacePART I: EMOTIONS, ATTACHMENT AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SELF Developing Minds in the Context of Close RelationshipsEmotions and Mind-MindednessPatterns of AttachmentDefensive Processes, Attachment and MaltreatmentPART II: ABUSE Physical Child AbusePsychological Maltreatment: Emotional Abuse, Neglect and RejectionPART III: NEGLECT Disorganised NeglectDepressed, Passive and Physical NeglectSevere Deprivation and Chronic Neglect Including Institutionalised CarePART IV: COMPOUND CASES OF ABUSE AND NEGLECTPhysical Abuse and NeglectDrugs, Depression and Domestic ViolenceChild Sexual AbusePART V: INTERVENTIONS Parent-Infant and Young Child InterventionsInterventions with Pre-School and School-Age ChildrenInterventions with Adolescents, Adults and ParentsEpilogueReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index

Professor David Howe OBE works in the Centre for Research on the Child and Family at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He has research, writing and teaching interests in child abuse and neglect, adoption, and children's development, and was founding editor of the Blackwell Science journal, Child and Family Social Work (1996-2001). Other publications include On Being a Client: Understanding the Process of Counselling & Psychotherapy (Sage, 1993), Introduction to Social Work Theory: Making Sense in Practice (Avebury, 1987, and still selling) and Adopters on Adoption (British Association for Adoption and Fostering, 1996).

'This is an important and impressive book and an invaluable contribution to the field.' - Anna Flanigan, YoungMinds Magazine 'This book is clearly organised and accessible, making it easy for the practitioner to consult relevant sections...Howe's final sentence sums up the message of this generally excellent book: 'if relationships are where things developmentally can go wrong, then relationships are where they are most likely to be put right.' - Jeanne Kaniuk - Adoption and Fostering 'A scholarly and very readable piece of work that will be of interest to academics as well as clinicians.' - Journal of Advanced Nursing 'There are some books that you pick up and think, 'I really ought to read that' and you approach them with a sense of dread mitigated only by grim determination. And then you start reading them, and you're hooked. This book was one of them.' - Accord Magazine for the Association of Christian Councellors

• PrefacePART I: EMOTIONS, ATTACHMENT AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SELF Developing Minds in the Context of Close RelationshipsEmotions and Mind-MindednessPatterns of AttachmentDefensive Processes, Attachment and MaltreatmentPART II: ABUSE Physical Child AbusePsychological Maltreatment: Emotional Abuse, Neglect and RejectionPART III: NEGLECT Disorganised NeglectDepressed, Passive and Physical NeglectSevere Deprivation and Chronic Neglect Including Institutionalised CarePART IV: COMPOUND CASES OF ABUSE AND NEGLECTPhysical Abuse and NeglectDrugs, Depression and Domestic ViolenceChild Sexual AbusePART V: INTERVENTIONS Parent-Infant and Young Child InterventionsInterventions with Pre-School and School-Age ChildrenInterventions with Adolescents, Adults and ParentsEpilogueReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index