Child-Centred Attachment Therapy: The CcAT Programme

Maggie Gall · Alexandra Maeja Raicar · Pauline Sear

Dec 2009 · Karnac Books

About this ebook

This book describes the development of the Child-Centred Attachment Therapy (CcAT) model of working with children with attachment difficulties. The authors describe, in a vivid and accessible manner, the complexities involved in supporting parents in their struggles to respond positively to the needs of children who have been traumatised by their early experiences. After many years of working with a number of families with children who act out their hurt through difficult behaviours, the authors offer their insights to help both parents and professionals to understand and deal more effectively with such behaviours. The CcAT therapists give an impressive account of their belief in a therapeutic approach that focuses on attachment and protection as prerequisites for promoting healthy relationships.

About the author

Maeja Raicar is a UKCP registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist, parent/infant psychotherapist, life coach, NLP and EFT practitioner. She has a CQSW, B.A. (Hons.) degree in English and a M.Sc. in the Sociology of Health and Illness. Her dissertation on her social work experience of adoption was published under the title of 'Teenage Pregnancy: the social making and unmaking of mothers' (1984, Birmingham, Pepar Publications). She has a private therapy practice and works part-time at the Post-Adoption Centre, London.