Disorganized/Disoriented (D) attachment has seen widespread interest from policy makers,
practitioners, and clinicians in recent years. However, some of this interest seems to have …

Just as Freud used stages of psychosexual development to ground his model of
psychoanalysis, it is possible to do the same with Erik Erikson's stages of development with …

Background Though noted in the clinical literature for more than 50 years, attachment
disorders have been studied systematically only recently. In part because of the ubiquity of …

We begin with a review of the literature on attachment disorganization in infancy; we cover
its definition, prevalence, and associated infant characteristics, including potential genetic …

Study of attachment in the 1970s and 1980s focused on operationalizing and validating
many of the tenets of attachment theory articulated in Bowlby's landmark trilogy, Attachment …

Current frameworks for understanding the link between early adverse childhood
experiences and later negative life outcomes, including psychopathology, focus on the …

In this volume, leading authorities provide a state-of-the-art examination of disorganized
attachment: what it is, how it can be identified, and its links to behavioral problems and …

Attachment has been assessed in the extreme environment of orphanages, but an important
issue to be addressed in this chapter is whether in addition to standard assessment …

Children raised in institutions, considered an extreme example of social deprivation, are one
group through which we can better understand the impact of neglect on child health and …

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the validity of criteria for indiscriminately
social/disinhibited and emotionally withdrawn/inhibited reactive attachment disorder (RAD) …