Understanding Attachment and Attachment Disorders: Theory, Evidence and Practice

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006 M08 15 - 288 páginas

This book offers a thorough examination and discussion of the evidence on attachment, its influence on development, and attachment disorders.

In Part One, the authors outline attachment theory, the influence of sensitive and insensitive caregiving and the applicability of attachment theory across cultures. Part Two presents the various instruments used to assess attachment and caregiving. Part Three outlines the influence of attachment security on the child's functioning. Part Four examines the poorly understood phenomenon of attachment disorder. Presenting the evidence of scientific research, the authors reveal how attachment disorders may be properly conceptualised. Referring to some of the wilder claims made about attachment disorder, they argue for a disciplined, scientific approach that is grounded in both attachment theory and the evidence base. The final part is an overview of evidence-based interventions designed to help individuals form secure attachments.

Summarising the existing knowledge base in accessible language, this is a comprehensive reference book for professionals including social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers, lawyers and researchers. Foster and adoptive parents, indeed all parents, and students will also find it of interest.

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12 Two Versions of Attachment Disorder
183
13 Research on Attachment Disorder
188
14 The Nature of Attachment Disorder
218
Attachment Theorybased Interventions and Some that are Not
229
15 Introduction
231
Enhancing Caregiver Sensitivity
233
Change of Caregiver
252
18 Interventions with No Evidence Base
261

7 Introduction
85
8 Assessments of Attachment
96
9 Assessments of Caregiving
139
Correlates of Attachment Organisation with Functioning
157
10 Which Domains of Functioning are Hypothesised to be Correlated with Attachment and What are the Possible Pathways of its Influence?
159
11 Evidence for Correlations between Attachment Security Insecurity and the Childs Functioning
166
What is Attachment Disorder?
181
19 Conclusions Regarding Interventions
267
References
269
Subject Index
281
Author Index
286
About FOCUS
288
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Página 56 - The formation of a bond is described as falling in love, maintaining a bond as loving someone, and losing a partner as grieving over someone.
Página 22 - A central feature of my concept of parenting is the provision by both parents of a secure base from which a child or adolescent can make sorties into the outside world and to which he can return knowing for sure that he will be welcomed when he gets there, nourished physically and emotionally, comforted if distressed, reassured if frightened."2 The chronically abused child not only lacks a "secure base" but also faces in that base a climate of pervasive teixor and danger.
Página 225 - ... persistent failure to initiate or respond in a developmentally appropriate fashion to most social interactions, as manifest by excessively inhibited, hypervigilant, or highly ambivalent and contradictory responses (eg, the child may respond to caregivers with a mixture of approach, avoidance, and resistance to comforting, or may exhibit frozen watchfulness...
Página 70 - Although throughout this book the text refers usually to 'mother' and not to 'mother figure', it is to be understood that in every case reference is to the person who mothers a child and to whom he becomes attached.
Página 16 - ... morphology, physiology, or behaviour can be understood or even discussed intelligently except in relation to that species' environment of evolutionary adaptedness.
Página 59 - affectional bond' as a relatively long-enduring tie in which the partner is important as a unique individual and is interchangeable with none other.
Página 22 - ... adolescent can make sorties into the outside world and to which he can return knowing for sure that he will be welcomed when he gets there, nourished physically and emotionally, comforted if distressed, reassured if frightened. In essence this role is one of being available, ready to respond when called upon to encourage and perhaps assist, but to intervene actively only when clearly necessary.
Página 29 - controlling" if they "seem to actively attempt to control or direct the parent's attention and behavior and assume a role which is usually considered more appropriate for a parent with reference to a child
Página 19 - Phase 3, maintenance of proximity to a discriminated figure by means of locomotion as well as by signals; and Phase 4, formation of a reciprocal relationship.
Página 142 - ... mood setting," which helps him to accept her wishes or controls as something congenial to him. At the other extreme, the interfering mother does not consider her baby as a separate person whose activities and wishes have a validity of their own. She seems to assume that she has a perfect right to do with him what she wishes, imposing her will on his, shaping him to her standards, and interrupting him arbitrarily without regard for his moods, wishes, or activity-in-progress.

Acerca del autor (2006)

Vivien Prior is senior research fellow at the Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit at the Institute of Child Health, London. Danya Glaser is consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Department of Psychological Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London.

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