Attachment Help for Foster Parents

A child’s attachment to a primary caregiver is crucial for her mental health both as a child and as an adult. Attachment is the process of forming emotional bonds between parent and child. Those bonds must be a two-way street: just as the child must attach to the primary caregiver, the parent must also attach to the child. That is sometimes hard for foster parents to do because they think their role in the child’s life is temporary or the child’s behavior makes them difficult to automatically love. Nonetheless, it is important for foster parents to help their child attach and trust that their needs will be met.

Creating a Family has resources, supported by research and experienced therapists, for helping foster parents and kinship families help the children in their care. A few we think you will find particularly helpful are:

Scroll to the bottom of this page to see the resources we have on attachment help for foster parents in the form of blogs/articles, radio shows/podcasts, tip sheets, fact sheets, and expert Q & A’s.

Image Credit: Colin Bowern


Additional Resources

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Creating a Family Radio Shows on Attachment

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Creating a Family Blogs on Attachment

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Creating a Family Factsheets, Tips, Research on Attachment

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Creating a Family Videos on Attachment

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Q and A's with Experts on Attachment

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