This is the first volume in a series of books called the Success Series on important topical areas for working with challenging children. The series begins with the fundamental aspect of life: attachment. No single issue influences the direction of a child’s life as profoundly as the ability to bond with others. Life itself depends on a baby’s capacity to connect with a source of safety, nourishment, and emotional support.
Unfortunately, many children are born into environments where their basic needs are not met. As a result, they develop barriers to connection that can become lifelong impediments to success and happiness. This book describes, in both technical and practical terms, what can go wrong in the development of attachment in children and what can be done to address these issues.
Helping a child to bond and attach to others, despite the vulnerability this entails, may be the single most important step any parent or professional can take to improve a child’s life. As Dave Ziegler states in Achieving Success with Impossible Children: “Attachment and the ability to develop profoundly significant connections with others is a prerequisite to success in life.”
