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It traces the practitioner’s personal healing journey into attachment work, describing training in parent-infant psychotherapy and adult psychotherapy, and how attachment concepts and bonding/positive interaction cycles informed the programme. 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The framework was later used to carry out therapeutic assessments for local adoption agencies, and to support birth and step-families – latterly by Maeja in Ireland too.  \nIntroduction  \nDeveloping and offering Child  \nCentred Attachment Therapy  \n(the CcAT Programme) to families in Essex and, more recently, in Ireland became part of my own  \nhealing journey. In the past, I mistakenly assumed that my choices of work and training were adult-led. I now know they were driven by my Child Self who needed to heal relationships within my family of origin .  \nIt seemed just chance that my job opportunities - both as a social worker and a therapist - were mainly in the field of adoption and fostering.  \nDecades later, I realised I was unconsciously seeking throughout to compensate for my own family losses .  \nIn the early 1990s, I felt impelled to join a pioneering course in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy at The School of Infant Mental Health in Hampstead, even though I was halfway through my training asan Adult Psychotherapist at what is now The Bowlby Centre in London . I can still recall the tutor’s surprise (and mine) at the pre-clinical training interview when – in response to his standard question as to why I wished to proceed with that adult therapy course - I heard my Child Self reply: “to be a resource formothers and babies .” That could well have been the end of my adult training, but, as the good therapist he was, he reflected back my seemingly irrelevant answer. I somehow explained my reasoning, he accepted it, and I duly began the clinical work.  \n20  Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy  \nVolume 24 • Issue 3 • Autumn 2024 ~~ ~~ IJCP  \nShortly after qualifying as an adult therapist, I was invited in February 1995 to lead one of the many attachment-themed miniworkshops at the annual John Bowlby Memorial conference. Mine was to be on my social work specialism: adoption and fostering. This meant I had to emotionally understand and explain “attachment” as a working concept to myself first. As a Kenyan Goan in Britain, coming from a traumatised migrant family with a range of “insecure”attachment styles (Bowlby, 1969) amongst our members, I understand now much better why it took me so long to recognise at “heart” level what a “secure”attachment feels like and how it can be carefully fostered in a new family.  \nBoth my parents came from Catholic families in Goa which had been culturally colonised by the Portuguese for generations there; they then emigrated to Kenya, an apartheid-style British colony – where my siblings and I grew up. Not surprisingly, our parents’ “sense of self” was severely impacted, and they could not model secure attachments for us . However, my training therapist and supervisors happened to be white migrants from South Africa .“Homeless at heart” like me, they had escaped its harsh apartheid regime when young and then had the shared experience of being“othered” in the “mother country,”England, as I was .  \nThrough therapy and supervision support, and play in the Winnicottian sense, I gradually reconnected with my hidden“Child Self” and slowly learned about “secure” attachments which I could then model better for the clients and families I worked with. Winnicott explored the relationship between play,  \nIt is no coincidence  \nthat I had by then over four years of training therapy with a wise and committed therapist who nurtured my avoidant, almost runaway Child Self  \ncreativity, self-discovery, and the ability to engage authentically with others (Winnicott, 1985) .  \nDevelopment of the CcAT Programme (1995)","cbCaibzfmck7OsbC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibzfmck7OsbC","pdf",437740,"English","# Introduction\n## Practitioner journey toward CcAT\n## Development of the CcAT Programme (1995)\n## Applying Fahlberg’s model to adoptive families","[{\"question\":\"What is Child-Centred Attachment Therapy (CcAT) and how long is the programme?\",\"answer\":\"CcAT is a brief 10-session family programme designed to support therapeutic work with families, particularly in adoption contexts.\"},{\"question\":\"Where and when was the CcAT Programme developed?\",\"answer\":\"It was developed in Essex, England, in the mid-1990s by the author together with three adoption colleagues.\"},{\"question\":\"How did Dr. Vera Fahlberg’s diagrams influence the CcAT Programme?\",\"answer\":\"The author reports that Fahlberg’s bonding cycle and the Positive Interaction Cycle suddenly made emotional sense and became the “aha” basis for understanding attachment and how it could be fostered in new families.\"}]","Child-Centred Attachment Therapy (CcAT) Programme - Practitioner Perspective | PDF",1791023238,13]