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Attachment therapy on trial : the torture and death of Candace Newmaker
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Attachment therapy on trial : the torture and death of Candace Newmaker

Author: Jean Mercer; Larry Sarner; Linda Rosa
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
Series: Child psychology and mental health
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English
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Named Person: Candace Newmaker; Candace Newmaker; Candace Newmaker
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jean Mercer; Larry Sarner; Linda Rosa
ISBN: 0275976750 9780275976750
OCLC Number: 51242100
Description: viii, 259 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Series foreword / Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Susanne Ayres Denham -- Introduction: Attachment therapy and its victims -- Case of Candace Newmaker. Candace's adoption and death : how a second chance became the last chance -- Backstory : people and systems behind Candace's death -- Candace's treatment : what they did and why they did it -- Facts behind Candace's case : realities of emotional development and childhood mental illness. Some facts about normal emotional development (and what the attachment therapists believed) -- When emotional life goes wrong : some facts about childhood mental illness versus the attachment therapists' beliefs -- Better treatment for Candace : how trained psychotherapists would have approached this case / Gerard Costa -- Preventing more cases like Candace's : problems and some possible solutions. Science and psychotherapy : is there evidence that attachment therapy is a valid treatment? -- Deceivers and the deceived : factors that made attachment therapy acceptable to parents and to practitioners -- Law and the child : how our legal system affected Candace Newmaker's life and death -- Conclusion -- Lawsuits and legislation : where do we go from here? -- Bibliography of materials relevant to attachment therapy.
Series Title: Child psychology and mental health
Responsibility: Jean Mercer, Larry Sarner, and Linda Rosa ; with a chapter by Gerard Costa.
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