Using the science that underlies more extreme approaches to "attachment parenting," The Attachment Connection helps parents sort out the facts from the fiction about parent-child attachment and shows how paying attention to the cognitive needs of a growing child can help him or her grow up healthy, secure, and confident.

Ruth P. Newton, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in attachment and affect regulation in the developing child. She is also the supervising psychologist for Child and Mental Health Services at St. Vincent de Paul Village, a homeless rehabilitation center in downtown San Diego, and a training supervisor for master and doctoral level interns. Newton is on the advisory board for the Attachment Institute at the University of California, San Diego, and is a member of the Technical and Professional Advisory Committee to the First 5 Commission of San Diego that funds programming for children from birth to age five and their families. She works with children and adults in a private practice in La Jolla, CA, and is a longtime consultant for SAY, San Diego's Extended Day Childcare programs. Newton has trained with Alan Sroufe, Elizabeth Carlson, Mary Main, and Erik Hesse on attachment in children and adults, and she is in an ongoing study group with Allan Schore. She is a contributing author to Reader's Guide to Affect Regulation and Neurobiology, edited by Allan and Judith Schore and Play Therapy for Very Young Children, edited by Charles Schaefer, Phronsie Kelly-Zion, Judy McCormick, and Akiko Ohnogi.

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