Table Of ContentPALGRAVE TEXTS IN COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
Series Editors:Arlene Vetere · Rudi Dallos
Attachment
Narrative Therapy
Applications
and Developments
Edited by Rudi Dallos
Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Series Editors
Arlene Vetere
Family Therapy and Systemic Practice
VID Specialized University
Oslo, Norway
Rudi Dallos
Clinical Psychology
Plymouth University
Plymouth, UK
This series introduces readers to the theory and practice of counselling
and psychotherapy across a wide range of topical issues. Ideal for both
trainees and practitioners, the books will appeal to anyone wishing to use
counselling and psychotherapeutic skills and will be particularly relevant
to workers in health, education, social work and related settings. The
books in this series emphasise an integrative orientation weaving together
a variety of models including, psychodynamic, attachment, trauma,
narrative and systemic ideas. The books are written in an accessible and
readable style with a focus on practice. Each text offers theoretical
background and guidance for practice, with creative use of clinical
examples.
Arlene Vetere, Professor of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice at
VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway.
Rudi Dallos, Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Clinical Psychology,
University of Plymouth, UK.
Rudi Dallos
Editor
Attachment
Narrative Therapy
Applications and Developments
Editor
Rudi Dallos
Clinical Psychology
University of Plymouth
Plymouth, UK
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Contents
1 Attachment Narrative Therapy 1
Rudi Dallos
2 Towards a Secure Exploration of Attachment and Shame
Using Attachment Narrative Therapy 33
Myriam Laplanche
3 Supporting Parents of Children with an Intellectual
Disability Using Attachment Narrative Therapy 65
Mark Hudson
4 Taking an Insider Position to Working with Family
Conflict, Violence and Domestic Abuse: Contributions
from Attachment Narrative Therapy 95
Rebecca Infanti-Milne, Richard McKenny, and Lee Walton
5 Working Systemically with Family Violence and
Attachment Dilemmas 121
Arlene Vetere
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6 SAFE, a Manualised Version of Attachment Narrative
Therapy Designed for Families of Children with an
Autism Diagnosis 139
Rebecca Stancer
7 Self-Harm: Moving from Dyads to Triads 161
Ramón Karamat Ali and Rudi Dallos
8 Fostering Home–School Relationships: SAFE with
Schools (SwiS) 195
Tara Vassallo
9 Long-Term Supervision in Post- Qualification Systemic
Psychotherapy: An Attachment Narrative Approach 229
Arlene Vetere, Rebecca Infanti-Milne, Lee Walton, and
Richard McKenny
10 Setting Up an ANT-Based Systemic Family Therapy
Clinic: Experiences, Recommendations and Extensions 247
Ramón Karamat Ali
11 Bereavement Attachment Narrative Therapy (BANT):
An ANT Approach to Working with Grief 275
Jacqui Stedmon and Rudi Dallos
I ndex 305
Notes on Contributors
Rudi Dallos is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at the
University of Plymouth. He has worked as a family therapist and clinical
psychologist for over 40 years. He has engaged in research and publications
and has written a number of books, including Don’t Blame the Parents
(2019), Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy (2013) and An
Introduction to Family Therapy (2010).
Mark Hudson completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology at
the University of Leicester, UK, before studying Clinical Psychology at
the University of Birmingham and University of Sheffield, UK. He is a
practising clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Clinical
Psychology at the University of Nottingham, UK. After qualifying, he
initially worked in an in-patient assessment unit for children with
moderate-severe intellectual disabilities (ID), before moving to work in
both a community child and adolescent mental health service and a
specialist community team for children with ID. He has a particular
interest in attachment and systemic family therapy, and has published on
the use of these approaches in people with autism and ID. He works for
an autism charity, providing specialist assessments to families where a
child has developmental difficulties.
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Rebecca Infanti-MIlne is a social worker and systemic psychotherapist,
and works part-time as Systemic Lead for London Borough of Hackney
and part-time with Lee Walton and Richard McKenny. She has a special
interest in working with couples who have used and experienced domes-
tic violence. She teaches and trains on working with violence, using dia-
logical approaches in social care.
Ramón Karamat Ali is a family therapist and supervisorwho works with
adolescents pre senting with complex mental health problems and their
families. He also uses ANT in his private practice as a systemic supervisor
and as a couple therapist working with relationships in distress. He is the
Research Lead on the MSc in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy in
Manchester where he is also the Course Lead on the Systemic Supervision
Course. He has trained counsellors, therapists and psychologists in the
Netherlands and South Africa.
Myriam Laplanche is a psychotherapist and supervisor in private prac-
tice in London, working mainly with individual clients. After originally
qualifying as a lawyer in France, she trained as an attachment- based psy-
chotherapist at the Bowlby Centre in London. She came to write this
chapter through her work in a supervision group led by Rudi Dallos. She
has a strong interest in the transmission of attachment patterns within
families and through wider cultural influences.
Richard McKenny is a social worker, systemic psychotherapist and
supervisor, working mainly with organisations to develop services for
families through consultation, supervision and clinical practice. He has a
special interest in working with couples who have used and experienced
domestic violence. He teaches and trains on working with violence, using
dialogical approaches in social care.
Rebecca Stancer is a developmental psychologist, family therapist and
Associate Professor of Early Childhood at the University of Plymouth.
She is also co-designer of the SAFE intervention and has a longstanding
research interest in support for autistic children and their families. She
has produced a range of related publications and headed a feasibility
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study to explore the family experience of SAFE in NHS settings in the
southwest of the UK.
Jacqui Stedmon is Director of Clinical Psychology Training at the
University of Plymouth. She is a family therapist who has developed
Jeremiah’s Journey, a bereavement service for children in Plymouth,
Devon, UK. She has published widely on family therapy, bereavement
and clinical formulation, and has authored the book Reflective Practice in
Psychotherapy and Counselling (2009).
Tara Vassallo is a lecturer and early career researcher in child develop-
ment and education at the University of Plymouth. Her background is in
psychology and her main research interest is autism, with a focus on sys-
temic practice and family systems. She has worked closely with the autis-
tic community for more than 15 years, in the UK and previously in
Australia, both professionally and in a voluntary capacity as an autism
ally and family advocate. Her doctoral research centres on the develop-
ment of the systemic attachment-based intervention ‘SAFE with Schools’
(SwiS), exploring its application within education, and focusing on the
relationships of parents and teachers and the child they share. Tara lives
with her family in Devon, UK.
Arlene Vetere is Professor Emeritus of Family Therapy and Systemic
Practice at VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway. She is a clinical
psychologist and systemic psychotherapist and supervisor, registered in
the UK, where she resides.
Lee Walton is a social worker, systemic psychotherapist and supervisor,
working mainly with organisations to develop services for families
through consultation, supervision and clinical practice. He has a special
interest in working with couples who have used and experienced domes-
tic violence.He teaches and trains on working with violence, using dia-
logical approaches in social care.
