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Attachment Theory and Close Relationships » Read Now
by W. Steven Rholes, Jeffry A. Simpson. 438 pgs.

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Presents an up-to-date look at the field of adult attachment theory. Chapters examine the measurement of adult attachment styles, affect regulation, and clinical applications, including attachment and the therapist-client relationship, the defensive organization of attachment styles, the development...
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Presents an up-to-date look at the field of adult attachment theory. Chapters examine the measurement of adult attachment styles, affect regulation, and clinical applications, including attachment and the therapist-client relationship, the defensive organization of attachment styles, the development of working models in conflict-ridden and divorced families, and the relationship between attachment and domestic violence.
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John Bowlby and Attachment Theory » Read Now
by Jeremy Holmes. 251 pgs.

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Attachment from Infancy to Adulthood: The Major Longitudinal Studies » Read Now
by Klaus E. Grossmann, Karin Grossmann, Everett Waters. 332 pgs.

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Attachment across the Life Cycle » Read Now
by Peter Marris, Colin Murray Parkes, Joan Stevenson-Hinde. 310 pgs.

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Emotional Development in Psychoanalysis, Attachment Theory, and Neuroscience: Creating Connections » Read Now
by Viviane Green. 236 pgs.

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Drawing on a wide range of detailed case studies with subjects across childhood and adolescence, this book provides insight into how very different schools of thought can work together to achieve clinical success in work with particularly difficult young patients.
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A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development » Read Now
by John Bowlby. 208 pgs.

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Parent-Child Relations throughout Life (Part I "Attachment") » Read Now
by Kathleen McCartney, Karl Pillemer. 292 pgs.

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Attachment Issues in Psychopathology and Intervention » Read Now
by Leslie Atkinson, Susan Goldberg. 289 pgs.

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To be a human being (or indeed to be a primate) is to be attached to other fellow beings in relationships, from infancy on. This book examines what happens when the mechanisms of early attachment go awry, when caregiver and child do not form a relationship in which the child finds security in times...
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To be a human being (or indeed to be a primate) is to be attached to other fellow beings in relationships, from infancy on. This book examines what happens when the mechanisms of early attachment go awry, when caregiver and child do not form a relationship in which the child finds security in times of uncertainty and stress. Although John Bowlby, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, originally formulated attachment theory for the express purpose of understanding psychopathology across the life span, the concept of attachment was first adopted by psychologists studying typical development. In recent years, clinicians have rediscovered the potential of attachment theory to help them understand psychological/psychiatric disturbance, a potential that has now been amplified by decades of research on typical development. Attachment Issues in Psychopathology and Intervention is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the implications of current attachment research and theory for conceptualizing psychopathology and planning effective intervention efforts. It usefully integrates attachment considerations into other frameworks within which psychopathology has been described and points new directions for investigation. The contributors, who include some of the major architects of attachment theory, link what we have learned about attachment to difficulties across the life span, such as failure to thrive, social withdrawal, aggression, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, dissociation, trauma, schizo-affective disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, eating disorders, and comorbid disorders. While all chapters are illuminated by rich case examples and discuss intervention at length, half focus solely on interventions informed by attachment theory, such as toddler-parent psychotherapy and emotionally focused couples therapy. Mental health professionals and researchers alike will find much in this book to stimulate and facilitate effective new approaches to their work.
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Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation » Read Now
by Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, Mary C. Blehar, Everett Waters, Sally Wall. 391 pgs.

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Clinical Implications of Attachment » Read Now
by Jay Belsky, Teresa Nezworski. 448 pgs.

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Constructivist Perspectives on Developmental Psychopathology and Atypical Development (Chap. 3 "Construction and Reconstruction of Early Attachments: Taking Perspective on Attachment Theory and Research") » Read Now
by Daniel P. Keating, Hugh Rosen. 256 pgs.

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Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications » Read Now
by Jude Cassidy, Phillip R. Shaver. 888 pgs.

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Intersections with Attachment » Read Now
by Jacob L. Gewirtz, William M. Kurtines. 328 pgs.

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Attachment Theory, Child Maltreatment, and Family Support: A Practice and Assessment Model » Read Now
by David Howe, Marian Brandon, Diana Hinings, Gillian Schofield. 312 pgs.

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Four scholars of social work at the University of East Anglia summarize the recent developments in understanding children's social development, especially in terms of development attachment theory, and how they can be used by professionals working in child welfare, maltreatment, family support, adoption, and residential and foster care.
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Understanding Attachment: Parenting, Child Care, and Emotional Development » Read Now
by Jean Mercer. 194 pgs.

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Whither Attachment Theory: Attachment to Our Caregivers or to Our Models?, in Psychological Inquiry » Read Now
by Patricia Noller, Judith A. Feeney. 6 pgs.

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