Attachment Focused Therapies
Theraplay®
Theraplay is offered to children and families to support building and enhancing attachment relationships, self-esteem, trust in others, and engagement. It is based on the natural patterns of playful, healthy interaction between parents or caregivers and a child and is personal, physical, and fun.
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)
DDP is an attachment-focused therapy developed by Dr Daniel Hughes. DDP can help children who have experienced hurt, abuse, or neglect in their early years within a caregiving relationship. DDP aims to help those affected through enabling them to engage in more securely attached relationships with the people caring for them. The approach is strongly grounded in attachment theory whilst also drawing on trauma informed principles, systemic ideas and an understanding of neurobiology.
Nurturing Attachments
Nurturing Attachments is an intervention designed to provide support and guidance to parents and/or carers of children with developmental trauma. Based on attachment theory and an understanding of the impact of trauma on children’s development and security, it offers a programme of support for how to therapeutically parent children.