ABSTRACT
The Child-centred Attachment Therapy (CcAT) philosophy offered struggling birth mothers a chance to explore their own experiences of being parented when young. Rather than just assessing their current parenting skills, which were poor, by allowing mothers the opportunity to address long buried traumas in their own childhood. CcAT is co-worked by two therapists: one who does "play-work" with the child, and the other who works with the parent/carer(s). CcAT therapists have helped several children to understand their feelings of loss and bereavement, and to move on to make healthy new attachments to their foster families. Our major learning with CcAT is very useful as a brief intervention at a time of family crisis, but the attachment work needs to be reinforced by the carers themselves afterwards.
