Safeguarding Children from Emotional Maltreatment: What Works

Emotional maltreatment is widespread and has profoundly harmful effects on all aspects of a child's development. Many of these problems are carried into adulthood and have wide-ranging manifestations including disorganized attachment, posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression, eating disorders, and borderline personality disorder.

This book focuses on 'what works' in preventing emotional maltreatment from occurring and recurring, and explores the evidence about a wide range of ps...