It's More Than a Measure

Condon, Marie Celeste; Spieker, Susan J.

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“…To the degree that it may provide a more pragmatic assessment of parent-child attachment than the Strange Situation, this new measure could prove enormously useful in programs like EHS that must be evaluated as they go to scale. The measure's usefulness for Early Head Start is most immediately evident as a training tool (Condon & Spieker, 2008as cited in Spieker et al 2010. Giving home visitors a way to make sense of what they are seeing while learning about the fundamental interactions that are the building blocks of attachment is valuable.…”

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Attachment research and Early Head Start: from data to practice

Boris

Zeanah

2011

Attachment & Human Development

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Early Head Start is the only federal program in the United States to support families from birth to three-years, a phase in which attachment is a central developmental task. The papers which make up this Special Issue represent formative work in using attachment theory and measures to frame research in Early Head Start. In this commentary, we offer some initial thoughts on how each of the studies presented might be used to foster program improvement and inspire research that will address pressing questions looking forward.

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Attachment research and Early Head Start: from data to practice

Boris

Zeanah

2011

Attachment & Human Development

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Attachment and Caregiver–infant Interaction: A Review of Observational‐assessment Tools

Tryphonopoulos

Letourneau

DiTommaso

2014

Infant Mental Health Journal

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The relationship between maternal-infant interaction and attachment quality to infant developmental outcomes has long been established. As children mature, problems stemming from troubled caregiver-infant relations may result in referral to mental health or child protection services. The accurate and appropriate assessment of attachment is critical for early recognition of problematic relations and for informing suitable treatment modalities. Evaluating the quality of attachment poses a challenge for researchers and clinicians seeking to explore the association between infant development and the quality of early caregiving experiences. Although providing a definitive answer to the question of which of these assessment procedures is the single universal standard for measuring attachment quantity is beyond the scope of this article, readers will be provided with a description and comparison of strengths and limitations of the most commonly used measures of attachment, including the Strange Situation Procedure (M.D.S. Ainsworth, M.C. Blehar, E. Waters, & S. Wall, 1978), Attachment Q-Sort (E. Waters & K.E. Deane, 1985), Toddler Attachment Sort (TAS-45; J. Kirkland, D. Bimler, A. Drawneek, M. McKim, & A. Scholmerich, 2004), CARE-Index (P. Crittenden, 1985), Atypical Maternal Behavior Instrument for Assessment and Classification (AMBIANCE; E. Bronfman, E. Parsons, & K. Lyons-Ruth, 1999), Massie-Campbell Scale of Mother-Infant Attachment Indicators During Stress Scale (Attachment During Stress Scale; H.N. Massie & B.K. Campbell, 1983), and the Risky Situation Procedure (D. Paquette & M. Bigras, 2010).

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Validity of the TAS-45 as a measure of toddler–parent attachment: preliminary evidence from Early Head Start families

Spieker¹,

Nelson²,

Condon³

2011

Attachment & Human Development

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A new observational measure of attachment strategies in the home, the Toddler Attachment Sort-45 (TAS-45) was completed for 59 18- to 36-month-old recipients of EHS. Mothers completed the Brief Infant Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (BITSEA); children were tested on the Preschool Language Scale (PLS-4); and a mother-child snack was videotaped and coded for dyadic mutuality. The TAS-45 Security score was associated with more dyadic mutuality, higher language and competence scores, and lower problem scores. Discriminant validity was evidenced by a lack of associations with the TAS-45 Dependence score. The TAS-45 Disorganized “hotspot” (cluster) score also showed expected associations with these outcomes. Results are discussed in terms of next steps for use of the TAS-45 in research and practice.

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It's More Than a Measure

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Attachment research and Early Head Start: from data to practice

Attachment research and Early Head Start: from data to practice

Attachment and Caregiver–infant Interaction: A Review of Observational‐assessment Tools

Validity of the TAS-45 as a measure of toddler–parent attachment: preliminary evidence from Early Head Start families

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