Attachment theory has been generating creative and impactful research for almost half a
century. In this article we focus on the documented antecedents and consequences of …

It is now well established that pain is a multidimensional phenomenon, affected by a gamut
of psychosocial and biological variables. According to diathesis–stress models of chronic …

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licence. It is free to read at Oxford Clinical Psychology Online and offered as a free PDF …

The present chapter summarizes Bowlby's initial ethological approach to understanding the
child's tie to the mother, along with elaborations based on more recent research and …

The chapter begins with the premise that caregiving is not restricted to parents, and that
parents therefore are not children's only attachment figures. Howes and Spieker examine …

This book offers a thorough examination and discussion of the evidence on attachment, its
influence on development, and attachment disorders. In Part One, the authors outline …

The hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal axis is particularly sensitive to conditions of
maltreatment. In particular, neglected children have shown a flatter slope with lower wake …

This review aims to consider evidence for the impact of maternal psychopathology on the
child's attachment to the mother, and the role of this in mediating the known transmission of …

According to attachment theory (eg, Bowlby, 1969/1982, 1973, 1980), infants develop
cognitive models (termed internal working models, IWMs) of their attachment figures during …

This observational study addressed a critical gap in the understanding of the precursors of
infant attachment by examining whether a new conceptualization of maternal caregiving …