Sleep problems are among the most common, urgent and undermining troubles parents meet. This book describes Dilys Daws' pioneering method of therapy for sleep problems, honed over 40 years of work with families: brief psychoanalytic therapy with parents and infants together. Offering tried and tested ways of helping parents work things out better with their babies when such problems arise, this new edition of Dilys Daws’ classic work, updated with expert help from Sarah Sutton, frees professionals from the burden of feeling they need to rush to give advice to families.
Key Features
- Pioneering Method: Dilys Daws' therapy method developed over 40 years.
- Comprehensive Understanding: Explores sleep problems in the context of various aspects of early development.
- Updated Insights: Incorporates twenty-first century development research and clinical wisdom.
- Support for Professionals: Guides professionals in working with families without rushing to give advice.
Additional Information
This much-needed, compassionate and well-informed guide to helping parents and babies with sleep problems sheds light on the sleep problem in the context of a whole range of aspects of the early world: the regulation of babies’ physiological states; dreams and nightmares; the development of separateness; separation and attachment problems; and connections with feeding and weaning. It will be treasured by new parents struggling with sleeplessness and is enormously valuable for anyone working with parents and their babies.
