Children's emotional and relational development can be negatively influenced by maternal
substance abuse, particularly through a dysfunctional caregiving environment. Attachment …

Mothers who are physically and/or psychologically dependent upon alcohol and illicit drugs
are at risk for a wide range of parenting deficits beginning when their children are infants …

Although randomized controlled trials examining the efficacy of attachment‐based
interventions have been increasing in recent years, adequate measurement of treatment …

Using an attachment framework, we examined (1) whether substance-abusing mothers'
perceptions of how they were parented were related to the severity of their substance abuse …

Some often describe substance abuse as a disease with no cure. An alternative etiology of
substance abuse may be examined through a modern attachment theory lens. Examining …

This is a report of post-treatment findings from a completed randomized pilot study testing
the preliminary efficacy of the Mothers and Toddlers Program (MTP), a 12 week attachment …

Not all mothers with histories of substance use struggle as parents, but many of them do.
Research has shown that, although quality of caregiving varies widely, as a group, mothers …

Growing evidence shows that attachment is a key risk factor for the diagnosis and treatment
of clinical diseases in Axis I, such as drug addiction. Recent literature regarding attachment …

Maternal substance abuse is the most common factor involved when children come to the
attention of the child welfare system. Although there is a clear need for clinical trials to …

In this study, we replicated a rigorous test of the proposed mechanisms of change
associated with Mothering from the Inside out (MIO), an evidence-based parenting therapy …