Peer Reviewed Literature and Book Chapters
Ash, Z., & Grey, B. (2022). ‘I feel … I need to defend myself’: Exploring the influence of social worker’s attachment history on the social worker-client relationship. Human Systems: therapy, culture and Attachments. Vol 2 (3) https://doi.org/10.1177/26344041221115940
Barrow, V and Grey, B (2025),The Meaning of the Adopted Child – The Knowing Me Knowing You Course. In Grey, B. ed. (2025) ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview: How to Understand Parent-Child Relationships and Plan Intervention from how Parents Talk about their Children’, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland
Barrow, V., Grey, B., & Essau, C. A. (2022). “I am not exaggerating, literally a monster … a Jekyll and Hyde type thing”: Understanding the lived experience of adoptive fathers whose children display violence and aggression’. Human Systems: Therapy, Culture and Attachments. Vol 3(1) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26344041221123513
Bhreathnach E, Grey B, and West C (2025), The Meaning of the Child in Sensory Attachment Intervention. In Grey, B. ed. (2025) ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview: How to Understand Parent-Child Relationships and Plan Intervention from how Parents Talk about their Children’, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland.
Crittenden, P. M., Landini, A., Spieker, S. J., & Grey, B. (2021). Using parental attachment in family court proceedings: DMM theory about the Adult Attachment Interview. Child Abuse Review, 30(6). Available from: https:doi.org/10.1002/car.2730
Crittenden, P. M., Farnfield, S., Landini, A., & Grey, B. (2013). ‘Assessing attachment for family court decision- making: A forensic protocol for empirically-based evidence regarding attachment’. Journal of Forensic Practice, 15(4).
Dallos, R., Grey, B., & Stancer, R. (2022). Anger without a voice, anger without a solution: Parent–child triadic processes and the experience of caring for a child with a diagnosis of autism. Human Systems: therapy, culture and Attachments. Vol 3 (1) https://doi.org/10.1177/26344041221115255
Dallos R. and Grey, B (2025)., Attachment-Based Interview Analysis: The MotC and AAI as a Research Method In Grey, B. ed. (2025) ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview: How to Understand Parent-Child Relationships and Plan Intervention from how Parents Talk about their Children’, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland.
Dallos R, Grey B, and Stancer R (2025), The Meaning of the Child in Families Living with a Child Diagnosed with Autism: Security, Exploration and Therapy. In Grey, B. ed. (2025) ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview: How to Understand Parent-Child Relationships and Plan Intervention from how Parents Talk about their Children’, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland.
Drzymala, H., Grey, B., & Fowler, N. (2022). Exploring the triadic parent–child–sibling relationship: How do mothers’ view of their children impact sibling relationships? Human Systems, therapy, culture and Attachments, Vol 3(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/26344041221145619
Goddard, J. (2005) ‘Baby’s First Year’, UK, Mitchell Beasley (Juliet Kesteven was formerly known as Juliet Goddard)
Grey (2023): ‘Beyond Sensitivity’: Understanding caregiving compromises in adverse contexts using the Meaning of the Child Interview in Chrząstowski S and Vetere A ‘Safety, Danger, and Protection in the Family and Community
A Systemic and Attachment-Informed Approach‘. Can be purchased here.
Grey, B. ed. (2025) The Meaning of the Child Interview: Making Sense of Parent-Child Relationships, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland.
Grey, B (2025) What Is the Meaning of the Child Interview? In Grey, B. ed. (2025) ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview: Making Sense of Parent-Child Relationships’, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland.
Grey, B (2025) Attachment Theory and the Self-Protective Transformation of Meaning. In Grey, B. ed. (2025) ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview: Making Sense of Parent-Child Relationships’, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland.
Grey B (2025) The Caregiving System. In Grey, B. ed. (2025) ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview: Making Sense of Parent-Child Relationships’, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland.
Grey, B (2025) Parental Mentalising – Storying the Inner Life of Self and Child. In Grey, B. ed. (2025) ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview: Making Sense of Parent-Child Relationships’, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland.
Grey, B (2025), Exploring the Dimensions of Caregiving – The Meaning of The Child Sub-Patterns. In Grey, B. ed. (2025) ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview: Making Sense of Parent-Child Relationships’, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland.
Grey, B (2025), The Meaning of The Child Assessment Process. In Grey, B. ed. (2025) ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview: Making Sense of Parent-Child Relationships’, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland.
Grey, B (2025), How to Code the Meaning of the Child Interview. In Grey, B. ed. (2025) ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview: Making Sense of Parent-Child Relationships’, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland.
Grey, B (2025), The MotC Assessment Process – the Case of Leah and Mason, in Grey, B. ed. (2025) ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview: Making Sense of Parent-Child Relationships’, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland.
Grey, B (2025), MotC-Based Formulation – Using the Meaning of the Child Interview to Plan Intervention. In Grey, B. ed. (2025) ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview: Making Sense of Parent-Child Relationships’, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland.
Grey, B (2025), The Meaning Of The Child Interview – So What? Towards a Systemic and Ecological Assessment of Caregiving. In Grey, B. ed. (2025) ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview: Making Sense of Parent-Child Relationships’, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland.
Grey, B and Farnfield, S (2017a), ‘The Meaning of The Child Interview (MotC) – A new procedure for assessing and understanding parent-child relationships of ‘at risk’ families’, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol: 22.2
Grey B and Farnfield S (2017b), ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview (MotC) – The initial validation of a new procedure for assessing and understanding the parent-child relationships of ‘at risk’ families, Journal of Children’s Services, Vol 12:1
Grey B. and Gunson J (2019) ‘Invisible Children? How attachment theory and evidenced-based procedures can bring to light the hidden experience of endangered children’ in Bunston W and Jones S. (Eds.) ‘Supporting Vulnerable Babies and Young Children: How to Work with Complex Challenges’ UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Grey, B, Dallos R, and Stancer R (2021) ‘Feeling “like you’re on … a prison ship” – Understanding the Caregiving and Attachment Narratives of Parents of Autistic Children’, Human Systems: Therapy, Culture, and Attachments
Guðmundsdóttir R B, and Grey B (2025), The Meaning of the Child in Child Welfare: A Case Study of Assessment and Intervention in an Icelandic Context. In Grey, B. ed. (2025) ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview: How to Understand Parent-Child Relationships and Plan Intervention from how Parents Talk about their Children’, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland.
Howe, L., Grey, B. and Dickerson, P. (2022), “The early and later-life care experiences of individuals using short-term homeless services: an attachment-informed interpretative phenomenological analysis”, Mental Health and Social Inclusion, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi-org.roe.idm.oclc.org/10.1108/MHSI-12-2021-0088
Molloy N, Keogh T, and Grey B (2025), The Meaning of the Child in an Irish Context: Bringing the ‘Why’ into Parenting Capacity Assessments. In Grey, B. ed. (2025) ‘The Meaning of the Child Interview: How to Understand Parent-Child Relationships and Plan Intervention from how Parents Talk about their Children’, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series), Switzerland.
Peng, L., Payne, H., & Grey, B. (2025). Healing developmental trauma: a pilot study on the discipline of Authentic Movement and attachment in adulthood. Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432979.2025.2528823
Spieker, S. J., Crittenden, P. M., Landini, A., & Grey, B. (2021). Using parental attachment in family court proceedings: an empirical study of the DMM-AAI. Child Abuse Review. 30(6). Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2731
Voellmy, L., Grey, B., Fowler, N., & Walter, B. (2024). ‘Trapped With My Children’ fathers’ caregiving experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Human Systems, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/26344041241270190
Professional Publications
Grey, B (1997), ‘Just Therapy? Can Therapeutic Social Work be Truly Anti Oppressive’, Surbiton: Social Care Association (SCA)
Grey, B (2001) ‘Called to Account’, Family Law Journal, No. 12, December
Grey, B (2001) ‘On the wrong side of the law’, Community Care, 18th November, concerning CAFCASS and the role of Children’s Guardians
Grey, B (2002) ‘Turning the Clocks back – Could CAFCASS’ current crisis have been avoided?’, Representing Children, Vol. 14, No. 4
Grey, B (2003) ‘Can CAFCASS change? Reflections on the Report of the Inquiry into CAFCASS by the House of Commons Select Committee of the LCD’, Seen and Heard, Vol. 13, no. 2
Grey, B (2005) ‘Attachment Theory – A Family Court Practitioner’s Tool? Foundations’, Representing Children, Vol. 18:1
Grey, B (2005) ‘Long Term Fostering or Adoption? A Research Review’, Seen and Heard, Vol. 15, no. 4
Grey, B (2006) ‘Attachment Theory – A Family Court Practitioner’s Tool – Developing an Attachment Minded Practice’, Representing Children, Vol. 18:2
Grey, B (2007) ‘Attachment in Adults: A Useful Concept in Family Court Proceedings’, Seen and Heard, Vol. 17, no. 3
Grey (2017) ‘The Meaning of the Child to the Adoptive Parent: Understanding the Contribution of the Parent to the Parent-child relationships in Adoption’, Seen and Heard, Vol. 27:2
Academic Posters and Dissertation
Crittenden P., de Mille A., de Mille P., Grey, B., and Landini, A., (July, 2010). “Assessing attachment for family courts: A protocol for empirically-based evidence on attachment for family courts.” Paper presented at the 3rd National research Conference on Child and Family Programs and Policy. Bridgewater, MA”. Also presented at the 2nd Biannual Conference of the International Association of Attachment in Cambridge, August 2010
Crittenden P., Grey, B. (2010) ‘Assessing Parental Competence in Family Court Proceedings using the DMM-AAI’ Poster presented to the 2nd Biannual Conference of the International Association of Attachment in Cambridge, August 2010
Grey B (2010) ‘The Meaning of the Child in Parenting Interviews: A comparative study using the Parent Development Interview and the CARE-Index’, Poster and seminar presented to the 2nd Biannual Conference of the International Association of Attachment in Cambridge, August 2010
Grey B. (2014) ‘The Meaning of the Child to the Parent: The Development and Validation of a new method of classifying parenting interviews for the nature of the parent-child relationship’, PhD thesis, London: University of Roehampton
Grey, B (2014), ‘The Meaning of the Child to the Parent – An Inter-subjective Approach to Assessing Representations of Caregiving’, Poster presented at the World Association of Infant Mental Health Conference, Edinburgh, June 2014
Grey, B and Gunson, J (2014), ‘What’s Missing? Can a multi-disciplinary approach to using attachment theory and evidenced-based procedures make visible the gaps in protecting children highlighted by serious case reviews?’ Poster workshop presented at the World Association of Infant Mental Health Conference, Edinburgh, June 2014.
Grey B and Kesteven J (2018), The Meaning of the Child Interview: Assessing Risk and Resilience in Parent-Child Relationships Through the Way Parents Speak about their Child (Workshop Presented at the 16th WAIMH congress in Rome, May 2018)
Grey B (2025) ‘The Psychology of Attachment and Autism’, Seed talks workshop, June 2025
Grey B (2025), ‘Why Can’t You Just Be Normal? Making Sense of Autism in Family Relationship’, Keynote address to the Bowlby Centre Annual Conference, October 2025
Kesteven, J. (2012) ‘Moving Beyond Blame and Shame – Using the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment to inform Parent- Infant Therapeutic Interventions’ Poster presented to the third Bi-annual Conference of the International Association of Attachment (IASA) in Frankfurt, 2012
Talks and Presentations
This is a talk given at for the Centre for Research into Social and Psychological Transformation (CREST) on the attachment narratives of parents who have autistic children.