ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the importance of love as key to the therapeutic efforts in enabling children to recover from traumatic and abusive events. It describes a significant focus for the workers and carers knowledge of attachment, reflecting on why children behave as they do rather than what they do, and understanding a child's distress rather than reacting to it. The E. Munro Review found that evidence provided by children conveys how much positive impact professionals can have when they spend time with the children they are helping. The qualities that children appreciate in these relationships are honesty, reliability, and continuity. M. Kellmer Pringle sets out what children need to become loving, caring parents. Loving practice must be ethical, workers must be well supervised and be reflective in their practice, and they must be aware of the curative properties of warm, attentive relationships.
