Attachment Therapy on Trial
Subtitle: The Torture and Death of Candace Newmaker (Child Psychology and Mental Health)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: May 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780275976750
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; Philosophy & theory of psychology; Popular psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychology; Biography/Autobiography; Psychology & Psychiatry Profession - Ethics; Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent; Newmaker, Candace; Psychology & Psychiatry / Child Psychology; 1990?-2000; Attachment disorder in childre; Attachment disorder in children; Case Studies; Death and burial; Malpractice; Mental health; Newmaker, Candace,; Social workers; Treatment; United States
First sentence: What made the practitioners continue their actions until the child was dead?
Description: "Candace Newmaker was an adopted girl whose mother felt the child suffered from an emotional disorder that prevented loving attachment. The mother sought attachment therapy - a fringe form of psychotherapy - for the child and was present at her death by suffocation during that therapy. This text examines the beliefs of the girl's mother and the unlicensed therapists, showing that the death, though unintentional, was a logical outcome of this form of treatment." "This book will appeal to general readers, such as parents and adoption educators, as well as to scholars and students in clinical psychology, child psychiatry, and social work."--BOOK JACKET.