Trauma, Attachment and Family Permanence -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Tapestry of Colours -- Part I State of Play: Current Theory and Practice -- 1. Adoption and Permanence Today: A Discussion -- 2. The 'Coherent Narrative': Realism, Resources and Responsibility in Family Permanence -- 3. Setting up the Loom: Attachment Theory Revisited -- 4. Weft and Warp: Developmental Impact of Trauma and Implications for Healing -- 5. Clinical Concepts and Caregiving Contexts: A Consultant's Perspective -- 6. 'A Hard Day's Night': A Parent's Perspective -- Part II State of the Art: Theory into Practice -- Jenny and Marty's Story -- 7. Assessment: A Multidisciplinary Approach -- 8. Rationale for the Intensive Programme -- 9. The Drama of Adoption -- 10. The Drama Unfolds -- 11. Contact as Therapy -- 12. Holding the Fort -- 13. Hands on Help -- 14. Difficulty with Learning or Learning to be Difficult? -- Part III State, Community and Family: The Future -- 15. Weaving Together the Threads: Families with Futures -- Appendix: Family Futures Case Planning Matrix -- Glossary -- References -- Contributors -- Subject Index -- Author Index.