Attachment Theory: History, Research, and Practice

Fitton, Victoria A.

doi:10.1080/15228878.2012.666491

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“…A secure attachment between an infant and his or her primary caregiver, where the primary caregiver shows that she is attuned or "in sync" with the infant, teaches the infant about the initial significant relationship that will influence all subsequent relationships (Fitton, 2012). Attunement also promotes emotional regulation for the infant (Siegel, 2001).…”

Section: Attachment Focusmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Therapeutic Interventions in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services: A Mixed Methods Inquiry

Myors

Schmied

Johnson

et al. 2014

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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Perinatal mental health disorders potentially have long-term negative sequelae for women, their infants and their families. Multidisciplinary perinatal and infant mental health (PIMH) services are an emerging specialty in mental health designed to improve mother-infant outcomes. This mixed methods study explored the characteristics of women referred to a specialist PIMH service and the therapeutic interventions that PIMH clinicians use. Women referred to the service were identified with multiple and complex risk factors. Perinatal and infant mental health clinicians use a range of interventions, dependent upon their training, such as family of origin work/genograms, non-directive counseling, and strategies to manage anxiety and depression. Clinicians also emphasized the therapeutic relationship and the interventions they use within an attachment-based framework, which warrants further research.

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Section: Attachment Focusmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Attunement also promotes emotional regulation for the infant (Siegel, 2001). Attachment, therefore, is the basis for infant development that will impact an individual's life trajectory as he or she learns to interact with the social environment (Fitton 2012).…”

Section: Attachment Focusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Therapeutic Interventions in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services: A Mixed Methods Inquiry

Myors

Schmied

Johnson

et al. 2014

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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“…The use of children's drawings as a tool to investigate attachment relationships was initially proposed by Kaplan and Main (1986), who identified drawing markers they predicted would relate to attachment styles (see Fitton, 2012, for a review of attachment theory). For example, figures that appeared complete and individuated on a page were theorized to be an indication of a secure attachment style.…”

Section: Elementary School Students' Perceptions Of Their Relationshimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Attachment theory describes that young children form internal working models of their relationships with caregivers that are used to inform and predict their subsequent relationships (Bowlby, 1988;Fitton, 2012). Where students perceive a warm, positive relationship with their teacher, they are likely to expect similarly positive relationships with other teachers and to respond accordingly.…”

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confidence: 99%

Adding Color to Conflict: Disruptive Students’ Drawings of Themselves with Their Teachers

McGrath¹,

Bergen²,

Sweller³

2017

The Elementary School Journal

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Building on work examining teachers' perceptions of the student-teacher relationship, this study investigated how young students draw themselves with their teachers. Fourteen kindergarten and first-grade teachers each nominated 2 disruptive and 2 well-behaved students. Students then completed 1 drawing of themselves with their classroom teacher and 1 with a support teacher (e.g., librarian, art teacher) at 2 time points: the end of the school year (Phase 1) and the beginning of the next year (Phase 2). In coding for 8 markers of relationship quality-vitality/creativity, pride/happiness, vulnerability, emotional distance, tension/anger, role reversal, bizarreness/dissociation, and global pathology-we found no differences in the way that disruptive and wellbehaved students depicted their own relationships with teachers. Gender and phase effects were identified, however, with boys depicting greater relational negativity than girls and all students portraying greater emotional distance at the beginning of the school year.

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“…Significance of the bond between mother and child for later child development has been well‐documented (Ainsworth, ; Alhusen, Hayat, & Gross, ; Bretherton, ; Fitton, ; Thompson, ). Unfortunately, the bonding process does not develop optimally in all mothers and children.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk and protective factors for pre‐ and postnatal bonding

Cuijlits

Wetering

Endendijk

et al. 2019

Infant Mental Health Journal

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Since disturbances in the mother-child bond increase the risk of negative consequences for child development, it is important to identify risk and protective factors for bonding as well as longitudinal associations. Previous research has used different bonding instruments during pregnancy and the postnatal phase, leading to inconsistent results. In the current study, the same instrument was used during the various phases. In a large, community-based sample (N = 793), general information, feelings of pre-and postnatal bonding (Pre-and Postnatal Bonding Scale), depressive symptoms (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale), and partner support (subscale Tilburg Pregnancy/Postnatal Distress Scale) were measured at both 32 weeks of pregnancy and 8 months postnatally. Partner support was found to be a protective factor for suboptimal pre-and postnatal bonding, as was the engagement with fetal movements for prenatal bonding. High maternal educational level was a risk factor for suboptimal prenatal bonding, as were depressive symptoms for suboptimal postnatal bonding. The associations between most prenatal determinants and postnatal bonding were mediated by prenatal bonding, which underlines the importance of promoting prenatal bonding. Professionals in clinical practice should be aware of partner support, engagement with fetal movements, and postnatal depressive symptoms: All these factors offer opportunities for improving the bonding processes. K E Y W O R D S mediation, postnatal bonding, Pre-and Postnatal Bonding Scale (PPBS), prenatal bonding, risk factors, protective factors RESUMENDado que las perturbaciones en la unión afectiva entre madre y niño aumentan el riesgo de consecuencias negativas para el desarrollo del niño, es importante identificar los factores de riesgo y de protección de la unión afectiva, así como también las asociaciones longitudinales. La investigación anterior ha utilizado diferentes instrumentos para la unión afectiva durante el embarazo y la fase postnatal, lo que ha llevado a resultados inconsistentes. En el presente estudio, el mismo instrumento se usó durante las diferentes fases. En un grupo muestra grande con base comunitaria (N = 793), se midieron, tanto a las 32 semanas del embarazo como a los ocho meses después del nacimiento, la información general, los sentimientos sobre la 768 © 2019 Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health Infant Ment Health J. 2019;40:768-785. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/imhj menant à des résultats n'étant pas uniformes. Dans cette étude, le même instrument a été utilisé durant les phases multiples. Chez un grand échantillon représentatif de la communauté (N = 793), les renseignements généraux, les sentiments de lien pré-et postnatal (Echelle Pré-et Postnatale) les symptômes dépressifs (Echelle de Dépression Postnatale d'Edinbourg) et le soutien du conjoint (sous-échelle de grossesse Tilburg/Echelle de Détresse Postnatale) ont été mesurés à la fois à 32 semaines de grossesse et à huit mois postnatalement. Le soutien du conjoint s'est avéré être une facteur ...

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Attachment Theory: History, Research, and Practice

Cited by 31 publications

References 46 publications

Therapeutic Interventions in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services: A Mixed Methods Inquiry

Therapeutic Interventions in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services: A Mixed Methods Inquiry

Adding Color to Conflict: Disruptive Students’ Drawings of Themselves with Their Teachers

Risk and protective factors for pre‐ and postnatal bonding

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