Questions about how children grow up in their social worlds are of enormous significance for
parents, teachers, and society at large, as well as for children themselves. Clearly children …

This target article presents an integrated evolutionary model of the development of
attachment and human reproductive strategies. It is argued that sex differences in …

Results The initial search returned 10,167 citations. This yielded 29 RCTs in the main review
of parenting interventions to improve attachment patterns, and one involving children with …

Attachment theory has become a key focus of both research and practice in understanding
and treating psychological and social risk for marital and relationship problems, parenting …

Although maternal attachment is an important predictor of infant attachment security and
other developmental outcomes, little is known about the formation of maternal attachment in …

Understanding Child Development introduces the main areas of developmental psychology
in childhood. Drawing on content which first appeared in 'Understanding Child …

In middle childhood, boys show more avoidant attachments and girls more ambivalent
attachments as a prelude to gender differentiation in reproductive strategies. However, we …

Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is a severe disorder of social functioning. Previous
research has shown that children with RAD may have poor cognitive and language abilities; …

En esta investigación se analizó la prevalencia de problemas emocionales y conductuales
en niños en acogimiento residencial así como la influencia del tiempo de …

OBJECTIVE:: To examine the clinical correlates and predictions from attachment narratives
in a sample of early school-age children from a high psychosocial risk, ethnically diverse …