Disorganized/Disoriented (D) attachment has seen widespread interest from policy makers,
practitioners, and clinicians in recent years. However, some of this interest seems to have …

Millions of children worldwide are brought up in institutional care settings rather than in
families. These institutions vary greatly both in terms of their organisational principles and …

Abstract The Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) was developed five decades ago to assess
infant–parent attachment relationships. Although the procedure itself has remained relatively …

Attachment theory and research are drawn upon in many applied settings, including family
courts, but misunderstandings are widespread and sometimes result in misapplications. The …

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This article examines the emergence of the concept of infant disorganized/disoriented
attachment, drawing on published and archival texts and interviews. Since this new …

Research on attachment is widely regarded in sociology and feminist scholarship as
politically conservative–oriented by a concern to police families, pathologize mothers and …

Main and Solomon were the first to create a formal infant Strange Situation classification of
attachment disorganization. Bowlby's reflections on the underlying psychological processes …

An unsettled question in attachment theory and research is the extent to which children's
attachment patterns with mothers and fathers jointly predict developmental outcomes. In this …

This article undertakes a systematic exposition and analysis of Patricia Crittenden's dynamic–
maturational model of attachment and adaptation. It traces Crittenden's information …