ABSTRACT
The international authors are researchers and psychotherapists working with different groups of people in different life contexts. Safety and protection, comfort and reassurance, in the face of relational and external dangers, preoccupy therapeutic practice and inform research activity, but still there remains a theory-policy gap in many of community and social institutions and workspaces. Attachment theory states that a sense of security arises from interactions between people who are close to one another. The field of security studies is still evolving, having initially focused on a global or state-centric approach to security, particularly the military aspect. Increasingly, however, more attention is being paid to the non-military aspects of security, as well as to the security of individuals. The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have shown the reader that the obvious is not always obvious, and there is a constant need to care about safety and security.
