Contents:
- Foreword: Professor Nigel Beail
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Why this book is needed
- Chapter 2: Klein, Bowlby, Mahler & Dosen: Theories of our need for love
- Chapters 3 – 16: Individual case studies
- Chapter 17: The Team: We’re flagging
- Chapter 18: What the science says: Dismissing attachment does not stand
- Chapter 19: Putting love at the heart of care services
Author Bio:
Victoria Shimmens is an Assistant Psychologist at NHS England. In 2021 she co-wrote a chapter with Allan Skelly and Aimee Corner about the long-term outcome of using PBS interventions in The Bulletin of the Faculty of People with Intellectual Disabilities.
Allan Skelly is the 2019-2021 Chair of the Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities (FPID) of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust. Allan was chair of the working group which produced the 2017 BPS clinical practice guidelines for the integration of Attachment Theory into the work of clinical psychologists in the UK.