Understanding Attachment and Attachment

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

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

1 Introduction

9

Part One: Attachment and Caregiving

2 What is Attachment?

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(9)

An evolutionary perspective

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(1)

The attachment behavioural system

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(1)

Activation and termination of attachment behaviour

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(1)

The development of attachment

18

(3)

Internal working models of attachment representations

21

(1)

Interplay between attachment and other behavioural systems

21

(1)

The exploratory behavioural system and the secure base

22

(1)

A safe or secure haven

22

(1)

Summary

23

(1)

3 The Classifications of Attachment

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(14)

Organised attachments

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(2)

Disorganised attachment

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(2)

From disorganised to controlling attachment behaviour

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(1)

An alternative classification

30

(1)

The distribution of attachment patterns

30

(2)

Stability or predictability of attachment patterns

32

(4)

Summary

36

(2)

4 What are the Factors Influencing Attachment Organisation (and Disorganisation)?

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(18)

The contribution of caregiving to attachment organisation

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(1)

What is caregiving?

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(3)

Empirical evidence for the role of the caregiver in determining organisation (or disorganisation) of attachment security

41

(5)

The role of the child's temperament and genetic factors in influencing attachment organisation

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(1)

Temperament factors

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(1)

Attachment and autism

47

(1)

Specific genes

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(1)

The intergenerational transmission of attachment

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(1)

The link between parental state of mind with respect to attachment and infant security

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(1)

The link between parental state of mind with respect to attachment and parental sensitive responsiveness (B)

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(1)

The link between parental sensitive responsiveness and infant attachment security (C)

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(1)

The transmission gap

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(1)

Bridging the transmission gap

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(2)

Summary

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(1)

5 Affectional Bonds and Attachment Figures

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(15)

What are affectional bonds?

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(3)

How is an attachment figure defined?

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(1)

Are professional child-carers attachment figures?

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(3)

How are the representations of multiple attachment figures structured?

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(6)

Summary

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(2)

6 Is Attachment Theory Valid across Cultures?

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(14)

Ainsworth's Uganda study

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(1)

The Gusii of Kenya

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(1)

The Dogon of Mali

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(1)

The Israeli Kibbutzim

73

(1)

The Hausa of Nigeria

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(1)

The !Kung San of Botswana

75

(1)

The Efe or Pygmies of Zambia

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(1)

The academic debate

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(2)

Comments

77

(4)

Summary

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(4)

Part Two: Assessments of Attachment and Caregiving

7 Introduction

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(11)

Attachment

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(1)

Caregiving

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(1)

Structure for presentation of assessments

87

(2)

Glossary of research and statistical terms

89

(7)

8 Assessments of Attachment

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(43)

Assessments of attachment based on observation of the child's behaviour

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(1)

Separation—reunion procedure

96

(9)

Q-sort methodology

105

(4)

Assessments of attachment based on the child's internal working model/representation

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(1)

Picture response tasks

109

(4)

Narrative Story Stem techniques (NSSTs)

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(11)

Interview techniques

124

(15)

9 Assessments of Caregiving

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Assessments based on observations of caregiving

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(1)

Maternal Sensitivity Scales

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(4)

The CARE-Index

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(2)

Atypical Maternal Behavior Instrument for Assessment and Classification (AMBIANCE)

145

(2)

Caregiver Behavior Classification System

147

(3)

Assessments/measures of caregiving based on the caregiver's internal working model/representation of caregiving or relationship with the child

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(1)

Parent Development Interview (PDI)

150

(2)

Experiences of Caregiving Interview

152

(7)

Part Three: Correlates of Attachment Organisation with Functioning

10 Which Domains of Functioning are Hypothesised to be Correlated with Attachment and What are the Possible Pathways of its Influence?

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(7)

Which domains of functioning are hypothesised to be correlated with attachment?

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(1)

What are the possible pathways of the influence of attachment?

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(4)

Summary

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(1)

11 Evidence for Correlations between Attachment Security/Insecurity and the Child's Functioning

166

(17)

Research issues

166

(2)

The evidence

168

(11)

Summary

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(4)

Part Four: What is Attachment Disorder?

12 Two Versions of Attachment Disorder

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(5)

International classifications

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(1)

Another version

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(3)

Summary

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(1)

13 Research on Attachment Disorder

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(30)

Issues regarding research methods

188

(1)

The evidence

189

(1)

Young children in residential nurseries in the UK and their later development

190

(5)

Children from Romanian orphanages adopted in Canada

195

(5)

Deprived children from Romania adopted in the UK

200

(6)

Children living in residential nurseries in Bucharest

206

(6)

US children in high-risk populations and maltreated children

212

(4)

Summary

216

(2)

14 The Nature of Attachment Disorder

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(13)

No discriminated attachment figure

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(2)

The nature of the difference between inhibited and disinhibited RAD

220

(3)

Alternative criteria for disorders of attachment

223

(2)

Disorganised and inhibited RAD

225

(1)

Reactive attachment disorder in children over the age of 5?

225

(2)

Summary

227

(4)

Part Five: Attachment Theory-based Interventions (and Some that are Not)

15 Introduction

231

(2)

16 Evidence-based Interventions: Enhancing Caregiver Sensitivity

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(19)

Bakermans-Kranenburg, van IJzendoorn and Juffer (2003) 'Less is more: meta-analyses of sensitivity and attachment interventions in early childhood'

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(5)

Cohen et al. (1999) 'Watch, wait and wonder: testing the effectiveness of a new approach to mother--infant psychotherapy'

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(2)

van den Boom (1994) 'The influence of temperament and mothering on attachment and exploration: an experimental manipulation of sensitive responsiveness among lower-class mothers with irritable infants'

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(1)

van den Boom (1995) 'Do first-year intervention effects endure? Follow-up during toddlerhood of a sample of Dutch irritable infants'

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(1)

Benoit et al. (2001) 'Atypical maternal behavior toward feeding-disordered infants before and after intervention'

243

(2)

Toth et al. (2002) 'The relative efficacy of two interventions in altering maltreated preschool children's representational models: implications for attachment theory'

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(3)

Marvin et al. (2002) 'The Circle of Security project: attachment-based intervention with caregiver—preschool dyads'

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(2)

Summary

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(2)

17 Evidence-based Interventions: Change of Caregiver

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(9)

Rushton and Mayes (1997) 'Forming fresh attachments in childhood: a research update'

252

(2)

Dozier et al. (2001) 'Attachment for infants in foster care: the role of caregiver state of mind'

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(2)

Steele et al. (2003a) 'Attachment representations and adoption: associations between maternal states of mind and emotion narratives in previously maltreated children'

256

(2)

Hodges et al. Changes in attachment representations over the first year (Hodges et al. 2003b) and second year (Hodges et al. 2005) of adoptive placement: narratives of maltreated children

258

(2)

Summary

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(1)

18 Interventions with No Evidence Base

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(6)

Direct intervention with the child

261

(1)

'Attachment therapy'

262

(5)

19 Conclusions Regarding Interventions

267

(2)

References

269

(12)

Subject Index

281

(5)

Author Index

286

(2)

About FOCUS

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