Dr Ben Grey is a social worker, psychologist, and Principal Lecturer (for Research) on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, University of Hertfordshire. He has conducted training, worked in, and published widely on attachment, parenting assessment, family court, and child-welfare practice, developing the Meaning of the Child Interview within this practice context.

1. Introduction.- 2. Attachment Theory and the Self-Protective Transformation of Meaning. The Caregiving System.- 3. Parental Mentalising – Storying the Inner Life of Self and Child.- 4. Exploring the Dimensions of Caregiving – The Meaning of the Child Sub-Patterns.- 5. The Meaning of the Child Assessment Process.- 6. How to Code the Meaning of the Child Interview.- 7. The MoTC Assessment Process.- 8. The Case of Leah and Mason.- 9. Attachment-Based Interview Analysis – The MoTC and AAI as a Research Method.- 10. The Meaning of the Child in Qualitative Research – How to Do Attachment-Informed Qualitative Analysis.- 11. The Meaning of the Child in Families Living with a Child Diagnosed with Autism: Security, Exploration and Therapy.- 12. The Meaning of the Adopted Child – The “Knowing Me, Knowing You” Course (Victoria Barrow and Ben Grey).- 13. The Meaning of the Child in Sensory Attachment Intervention.- 14. The Meaning of the Child in an Irish Context – Bringing the Why into Parenting Capacity Assessments.- 15. The Meaning of the Child in Child Welfare: A Case Study of Assessment and Intervention in an Icelandic Context.- 16. The Meaning of the Child Interview – So What? Towards a Systemic and Ecological Assessment of Caregiving.