The Computerised Manchester Child Attachment Story Task: a novel medium for assessing attachment patterns

Assessing attachment in adolescence: a psychometric study of the child attachment interview.

Research has established the quality of attachment as an important correlate and predictor of psychological well-being. Adolescence represents an important transitional period and is associated with considerable changes in psychosocial functioning and centrally in attachment relationships. However, measures of attachment are rarely examined for their psychometric properties in adolescence. In a...

Patterns of Functioning of the Child with Attachment Disorder (AD)

Survival: AD children deeply believe that their very survival depends on their being in control of other people and situations most of the time. AD children make a decision, early in life, probably not consciously, that they will never be in a helpless position again. They lack faith in anyone's control but their own. This leads them to avoid asking for help, regardless of their need for it, be...

The Child Attachment Interview: A Narrative Review

Attachment theory promoted an impressive body of research on the psychic developmental processes, resulting in studies on both typical and atypical development. Much of the diffusion of the attachment theory in the clinical field was related to the design of reliable instruments to evaluate the organization of attachment in infancy as well as in adulthood. Until recently, the lack of a suitable...

The report of the APSAC Task Force on Attachment Therapy, Reactive Attachment Disorder, and Attachment Problems.

Report of the APSAC task force on attachment therapy, reactive attachment disorder, and attachment problems.

Although the term attachment disorder is ambiguous, attachment therapies are increasingly used with children who are maltreated, particularly those in foster care or adoptive homes. Some children described as having attachment disorders show extreme disturbances. The needs of these children and their caretakers are real. How to meet their needs is less clear. A number of attachment-based treatm...