Attachment, trauma and resilience – Therapeutic caring for children
This book draws on personal and professional experience on family life with children who have experienced attachment difficulties, loss, abuse and trauma.
Fiona Munro
Attachment Theory for Social Work Practice
This book addresses the needs of social workers in understanding and assessing the nature and origins of such disturbed social relationships. Also includes an audio track.
Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain
This book explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems.
Positive Relationships, Better Outcomes
This guide provides practical advice and ideas about how to build positive relationships between staff and young people in secure settings.
Agenda For Change Towards a National Covenant for Scotland’s Care Leavers
This document aims to improve outcomes for looked after young people and care leavers by “care proofing” policy for care leavers into adulthood.
Young people in care or leaving care
A list of key findings from research studies and evaluations that show the positive impact of mentoring and befriending.
Children who go missing from care: A participatory project with young people as peer interviewers
The aim of the study was to work with young people with experience of going missing from care.
Leaving Care in Partnership
This research highlights that greater family involvement would be generally welcomed by young people leaving care.
The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014
This is the first in a new series of briefings from CELCIS that help to explain specific parts of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (2014 Act).
Building Positive Relationships with Young Children
A number of scenarios to highlight the fundamental importance of building positive relationships with children and young people.