Introduction. Section One: Getting Started. A Home Within: A Network to Address the Emotional Needs of Foster Youth. Section Two: The Dynamics of Attachment and Trauma. Relationships Beget Relationships: The Value of Attachment Theory. How Can You Treat What You Cannot Speak? Four: Good Guys and Bad Guys. Section Three: Systemic Impingements. In Search of the Romantic Family. Weaving Without a Loom. Hunger Pangs. Section Four: Treatment in the Context of Scarcity and Loss. Disrupted Care and Disruptive Moods. Infant Parent Psychotherapy Minus One. Learning to Say Goodbye: The Deaths of Three Fathers. Section Five: Back to Basics. The Essence of Relationship-Based Therapy.
Biography
Dr. Heineman has practised in San Francisco working with children, adults, and families for over 35 years. She is the founder and executive director of A Home Within. Dr. Heineman presents and publishes widely.
This beautifully written book manages to give words to the unspoken while honoring the importance of a clear theoretical framework. By successfully considering and integrating both the internal and the external world of the child , this book offers rich yet clear narratives which will hopefully inform caregivers, clinicians , other service providers and social systems involved in caring for children who often feel silenced and lost. The stories in this book are potentially sources for reflection, learning, growth and hope. Norka T. Malberg, PsyD, Yale Child Study Center
Remarkable for its clarity and accessibility, this volume provides a depth of understanding for all who treat multiply traumatized foster children and youth. Through the use of clinical vignettes, we are introduced to the lived experience of youngsters whose developmental processes are impacted by multiple losses, unimaginable trauma and lack of stability. Dr. Heineman explores the intermingling of complex external systems and equally complex internal developmental processes , deftly introducing us to a therapeutic process, which is informed by a sophisticated analytic sensibility and years of clinical experience. - Susan C. Warshaw, EdD,ABPP. Clinical Associate Professor, NYU Postdoctoral Program, Editor In Chief, Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
