Abstract The Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) was developed five decades ago to assess
infant–parent attachment relationships. Although the procedure itself has remained relatively …

First published in 2000. Attachment Theory is the current dominant theory of parent-child
relationships and their influence on development. The theory has generated an ever …

This book addresses the origins of attachment in mother–infant face-to-face communication
and its implications for adult treatment. Mother–infant communication provides the …

This meta‐analysis included 66 studies (N= 4, 176) on parental antecedents of attachment
security. The question addressed was whether maternal sensitivity is associated with infant …

A microanalysis of 4-month mother-infant face-to-face communication revealed a fine-
grained specification of communication processes that predicted 12-month insecure …

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 …

The Classic Edition of Promoting Positive Parenting illuminates the widespread success of
the Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline …

The reliability and validity of the Attachment Q Sort (AQS; Waters & Deane, 1985) was tested
in a series of meta‐analyses on 139 studies with 13,835 children. The observer AQS …

Precursors of Attachment Security Page 1 CHAPTER 13 Precursors of Attachment Security
RM PASCO FEARON JAY BELSKY Why do some infants develop secure attachments to …

Child psychotherapy is in a state of transition. On the one hand, pretend play is a major tool
of therapists who work with children. On the other, a mounting chorus of critics claims that …