Attachment Issues In Psychopathology And Intervention

Description

An overview of the implications of attachment research and theory for conceptualizing psychopathology and planning effective intervention efforts. It integrates attachment considerations into other frameworks within which psychopathology is described and points out directions for investigation.

Table of contents

Part I Psychopathology: L. Atkinson, S. Goldberg, Clinical Applications of Attachment - The Integration of Developmental and Clinical Traditions; B. Egeland, B. Carlson, Attachment and Psychopathology; D. Benoit, J. Coolbear, Disorders of Attachment and Failure to Thrive; K. Lyons-Ruth, S. Melnick, E. Bronfman, S. Sherry, L. Llanas, Hostile-Helpless Relational Models and Disorganized Attachment Patterns Between Parents and Their Young Children -Review of Research and Implications for Clinical Work; C. Hilburn-Cobb, Adolescent Psychopathology in Terms of Multiple Behavioural Systems - The Role of Attachment and Controlling Strategies and Frankly Disorganized Behaviour. Part II Intervention: R.R. Kobak, A. Esposito, Levels of Processing in Parent-Child Relationships -Implications for Clinical Assessment and Treatment; M. Dozier, B. Bates, Attachment State of Mind and the Treatment Relationship; A. Slade, Two Therapies - Attachment Organization and the Clinical Process; S. Johnson, An Antidote to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder -The Creation of Secure Attachment in Couples Therapy; D. Cicchetti, S.I. Toth, F.A. Rogosch, An Attachment-Theory Based Intervention for the Toddlers of Depressed Mothers.