Working with Relational Trauma in Children's Social Care: A Practitioner's Guide to Using Dyadic Developmental Practice

Andrew Lister · Alison Keith

sij 2025. · Jessica Kingsley Publishers

O ovoj e-knjizi

Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is a therapeutic approach that uses attachment theory to support children and families who have experienced relational trauma. By consciously offering PACE (playfulness, acceptance, curiosity, and empathy), adults can help children - and each other - to feel more secure and open to others.

This guide explains how to apply the principles of DDP to every level of working with children and families in the social care system. It covers how DDP can be used to support everything from building relationships between children and carers to decision-making on an organisational scale. It also explores ways to adapt DDP-based strategies to take different cultural and social considerations into account, allowing social workers to ensure their practice is tailored to each family's individual needs.

O autoru

Andrew Lister is a clinical psychologist. In the late 1990s he set up and ran the longest-established specialist NHS team for fostering and adoption in the UK. He went on to establish a similar team in the neighbouring Local Authority and then a specialist therapy service in an adoption charity, and has contributed to clinical teaching programmes in all the universities in the Southwest UK. He also devised and ran educational programmes for carers, professionals and others and continues to provide PACE training through the Developmental Dyadic Psychotherapy (DDP) network. Having relinquished his managerial roles, he is currently completing his 'practicum' in DDP therapy.

Kim S. Golding CBE, BSc, MSc, D. Clin. Psy. AFBPsS is a clinical psychologist who works in Worcestershire, England where she was influential in the founding of the Integrated Service for Looked After Children - a multi-agency, holistic service providing support for foster, adoptive and residential parents, schools and the range of professionals supporting children growing up in care or in adoptive families. Kim was trained and mentored by Dan Hughes in the use of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). She was formerly on the board of the Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Institute supporting the use of DDP in Europe, USA and Canada. She accredits and trains professionals in the approach and has been invited to speak about this work internationally.