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Promoting Attachment With a Wiggle, Giggle, Hug and Tickle

Promoting Attachment With a Wiggle, Giggle, Hug and Tickle

Fiona Brownlee | Lindsay Norris

(2015)

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Abstract

Practical and easy to use, this resource is for practitioners working in early years settings to help children aged 0-2 to develop secure and positive attachments with their parent or carer.

Designed to be flexible for one-to-one or group work, the resource features fun and engaging activities involving singing, movement and sensory activities in a structured but playful environment. It explains the significance of positive attachments in a child's early years, and equips practitioners with skills and techniques to help encourage bonding. It will be of particular interest to those working with parents needing additional support such as vulnerable and adoptive or foster families. The resource is accompanied by online materials - songs to sing along with, and film clips of signing to help parents and carers improve communication. This programme will help parents to become more attuned to the needs of their child, and aid the child's emotional, social and cognitive development.

With additional guidance on how to run the programme as a group, this resource will be easy to use for any health, education or childcare practitioner in specialist and mainstream settings.


A great resource which will help practitioners benefit parents/carers and their children - the theory explained will reinforce practitioners knowledge and the easy style in which it is written makes it an enjoyable process from start to practice.
Jane Comeau, Early Years Professional

Fiona Brownlee was Senior Peripatetic Paediatric Occupational Therapist in the Children and Families Department in Edinburgh, supporting children and staff in the city's early years centres. She is retired after 40 years' working as a therapist.
Lindsay Norris currently works as a Specialist Occupational Therapy Adviser, providing support to a team of Paediatric Occupational Therapists and Community Care Assistants. Previously, she has worked as a paediatric occupational therapist, a community occupational therapist and a senior practitioner occupational therapist.


Promoting Attachment With a Wiggle, Giggle, Hug and Tickle helps carers learn how to tune into their babies physically and emotionally, supporting their ability to understand their needs better and to develop the kind of consistent, loving relationships that have long-lasting benefits for child, carer and ultimately our wider society. This book provides accessible information about attachment, physical development and sensory stimulation and why they are so fundamentally important in a baby's early life.
Anne O'Connor, Principal Consultant, PRIMED FOR LIFE Training Associates

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction 9
Background 10
Outcomes 13
Positive feedback 14
1 Attachment 16
Positive attachment 17
Hormones and brain development 17
Reading your child 18
Empathy 19
Negative attachment 19
Lasting effects of a negative attachment 20
Resilience and emotional stability 21
Parent as we have been parented 21
How to encourage positive attachments 22
Insecure and indiscriminate attachments 22
Post-natal depression and attachment 23
Adoptive parents, foster carers and attachment 24
2 Communication 25
Babies want to communicate 26
Sign and gesture 26
Description of signs 27
Rhyme and song 30
3 Movement 32
The importance of movement 33
Tummy time 33
Reflexes 34
Positions for play 36
4 Sensory 39
Sensory processing 40
Intervention 42
Body awareness 43
Balance 43
Touch 44
5 Play 45
The importance of play 46
Baby play 46
The carer’s role in play 46
Signs of readiness to play 47
Responsive play 47
6 Child Development \n(0–2 Years) 49
Milestones in child development 50
Developmental delay 55
Developmental age vs developmental stage 56
Physical or learning disability 56
Emotional immaturity 57
7 Supporting Carers 58
Be consistent and follow a routine 59
Be prepared 59
Session structure 60
Points to remember 61
8 Running a Group 63
Who can run a group? 64
Where can you run a group? 65
The group – start to finish 66
Preparation 66
Now you can begin! 67
Endings 70
Points to remember 70
The role of the adult 70
Appendix 72
Session Planner 77
Wiggle Giggle Hug and Tickle Invitation 78
Wiggle Giggle Hug and Tickle Confirmation Letter 79
Individual Session Observation Form 80
Completion Certificate 81
Wiggle Giggle Hug and Tickle Evaluation Form 82
About the Authors 84