The emotional environment and the developing brain -- Beginnings -- The strange situation: understanding about secure and insecure attachments -- A unique child -- Positive relationships: why the key person approach really matters -- Enabling environments: how the wider context and its living web of relationships influences the core of early years practice -- Learning and development: attachment, emotional growth and learning -- Endings: arriving back where we began -- Appendix : Nurture groups ; Useful website addresses.
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