Product Description
This practical book presents cutting-edge approaches to couple and family therapy that use attachment theory as the basis for new clinical understandings. Fresh and provocative insights are provided on the nature of interactions between adult partners and among parents and children; the role of attachment in distressed and satisfying relationships; and the ways attachment-oriented interventions can address individual problems as well as marital conflict and difficult family transitions. With contributions from leading clinicians and researchers, the volume offers both general strategies and specific techniques for helping clients build stronger, more supportive relational bonds.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 4 reviews)

Interesting & helpful by J. Webb (Wichita, KS)

4 Stars
October 11, 2008
Johnson's edited book was both interesting in its compilation of various topics related to attachment and also very helpful in understanding attachment from birth to death and all points in between. My only criticism is the heavy emphasis on research rather than on the ground understanding and a great deal of overlap between chapters.

Great resource for relational therapists by LSB (Minnesota)

4 Stars
October 27, 2007
Yes, this book is a collection of essays on attachment and relational therapy. But they are fabulous articles, and well written, with the research to back them up. I read this book twice, and it sits on the shelf with the other key resources I refer to regularly in my practice as a MFT. I recommend this book to any counselor who works with marriages, parents and children/teens, and other close relationships where issues of attachment and connection reside.

A lot of information on attachment by Jennifer Green

4 Stars
January 11, 2007
This book provides a good over view of attchment theory.

Too much unusable theory by Dr. John Laughlin (Glenn Dale, MD)

2 Stars
July 03, 2006
A great disappointment unless you want to read boring research papers that are in this volume because somewhere in their text is the word "attachment." Johnson's articles are the best and clearest and least weighed down with tedious references, and distracting jargon. Like a lot of these compiled books this is are an assemby of journal articles from university types who use the least clearest way ro write to make it sould professional. Reading legal briefs is as clear. Many of the chapters will tell you little or nothing about couple therpy or aid you in your practice.

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