A-Z of Attachment

by David Wilkins, David Shemmings, Yvonne Shemmings

Overview

Launching Palgrave's interdisciplinary Professional Keywords series, this reader-friendly reference guide distils the study of attachment into digestible, yet authoritative, chunks. With over 60 alphabetized entries, it is the perfect introduction to the key concepts, debates and thinkers within this increasingly exploration of human behaviour.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137008268
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/17/2015
Series:	Professional Keywords , #8
Edition description:	2015
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

David Wilkins is Senior Research Fellow, Tilda Goldberg Centre, University of Bedfordshire, UK

David Shemmings is Professor of Child Protection Research at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Yvonne Shemmings is an Independent Continuing Professional Development Specialist and is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
David Wilkins is Senior Research Fellow, Tilda Goldberg Centre, University of Bedfordshire, UK

David Shemmings is Professor of Child Protection Research at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Yvonne Shemmings is an Independent Continuing Professional Development Specialist and is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Table of Contents

List Of Proposed Entries:
Adult Attachment
Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)
Avoidant Attachment
Ambivalent-Resistant Attachment
Attachment Disorders
Attunement And Sensitivity
Bonding
Bowlby, John
Child Attachment Interview (CAI)
Child Maltreatment
Criticisms Of Attachment Theory
Cultural Differences
Day Care And Childminding
Disability And Attachment
Disorganised Attachment
Dissociation
Emotion (Or 'Affect') Regulation
Evolutionary Insights
Exploration And Security
Fathers
Fostering And Adoption
Gender
Genetics Influences On Attachment
Goal-Corrected Behaviour
Harlow's Monkeys
History Of Attachment Theory And Research
HPA-Axis And Biochemistry
Insecure Attachment
Internal Working Model
Interventions, Attachment-Based
Kinship Care
Later Life Attachments
Loss And Bereavement
Measures Of Attachment
Memory
Mentalisation And Reflective Function
Mothers
Multiple Attachments
Nature And Nurture Arguments
Neglected Children
Neurobiological Insights
Object Relations Theory
Parenting
Proximity-Seeking And Safe-Haven Behaviours
Psychopathology And Mental Ill-Health
Research Methods
Resilience And Protective Factors
Romantic Attachments
Secure Base
Secure Attachment
Separation Protest
Story Stem Completion
Strange Situation Procedure (SSP)
Temperament
Theory Of Mind
Trans-Generational Transmission
Trust
Unresolved Loss And Trauma
Video-Based Intervention To Promote Positive Parenting (VIPP)
'Zero Empathy'