Love Poems: Some Thoughts on Attachment,Love, and Development in Classrooms of Emotionally Disturbed Children

The author describes experiences of mutual recognition, of regulation of affect, of reciprocity and “taking in” as they occurred in classrooms of emotionally disturbed latency aged children. These experiences were embedded with curriculum as well as within aspects of an attuned relationship between teacher and students and expanded to resonate within expeneriences in the wider community. The role and nature of attachments in classrooms of disturbed children is considered.