

Introduction
This guide is aimed at supporting professionals to recognise the role that shame might play in a child or adult’s life and how to take steps to minimise its ongoing affects. It will study its links to attachment and trauma by looking at how the development of shame is linked to specific survival strategies, whilst also explaining its protective purpose. By reframing the behavioural presentations of shame by looking at it as a survival response, it may allow us to respond differently to the behaviours that we see.
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