This article describes and illustrates a semistructured interview, the Working Model of the
Child Interview, designed to describe parents' internal representations of their infants. The …

THE maltreated-maltreating cycle is the most striking example of the psychodynamic notion
that early relationship experiences are carried forward and reenacted in subsequent …

This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International]
licence. It is free to read at Oxford Clinical Psychology Online and offered as a free PDF …

Childbearing seems eternal, primordial and universal. Yet human reproduction in the 21st
century is in a state of flux. This accessible book highlights dramatic changes that have …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

“An 8-month-old infant clambers on… a fallen tree while its mother sits about 7 feet below.
The infant slips and hangs by two hands.[His mother] looks up, stands on two legs, and …

In this chapter the author discusses separation and relatedness theories of personality
development as well as the few theorists who emphasize the parallel development of both …

The stability and predictive validity of Classifications of mothers' representations of their
infants as determined by the Working Model of the Child Interview (WMCI) were examined …

This article addresses the question of how the transition from late childhood to early
adolescence influences the organization of attachment. The applicability of a measure for …

It is not uncommon for individuals to think of other people they know well or have recently
met as being nasty or nice, conventional or open-minded, careful or sloppy, timid or …