Attachment-based trauma and parenting

Alice is a lecturer for the Centre for Child Protection and has worked within the field of child protection for 11 years. In addition to teaching, she also works independently providing parental assessments and intervention work for local authorities. She completed her PhD within the Social Care department at Royal Holloway University, which focused on exploring influencing factors on the outcomes of parenting intervention, with a particular interest in the impact of childhood attachment trauma on parenting capacity. Alice delivers attachment and relationship-based practice training to social care practitioners within the UK and Ireland. and has published work in the Child and Family Social Work and Children England journals. Her most recent publications include a chapter titled ‘Working with cases of neglect and emotional abuse’, featured in ‘Child Protection and the Care Continuum’ and a practice guided titled ‘Attachment Trauma and Parenting, commissioned by Community Care Inform.