Attachment Theory: The Basics

✍ Scribed by Ruth O’Shaughnessy, Katherine Berry, Rudi Dallos, Karen Bateson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Series: The Basics Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to key concepts of attachment theory, from the work of its founder John Bowlby to the most recent research within the field.

The first part of the book gives readers a clear understanding of attachment theory during infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and in bereavement. The second part of the book illustrates how attachment theory can be used to inform clinical interventions with children in different contexts, adults, and within wider health, social and educational systems. Using case examples throughout, the authors provide the reader with a practical understanding of the clinical applications of attachment theory across the lifespan and in varying health, social care and educational systems.

Attachment theory is one of the most important lifespan development theories and is relevant to students and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, including medicine, nursing, psychology, child development, mental health and applied social sciences.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Attachment and caregiving
2. Individual and cultural differences in attachment
3. The neurobiology of attachment
4. Middle childhood and child outcomes in attachment
5. Attachment in adolescence
6. Models of adult attachment
7. Attachment theory and adult mental health
8. Attachment theory and parenting
9. Bereavement and loss: attachment and family lives
10. Attachment interventions in the earliest years
11. Attachment interventions for children in care
12. Attachment in adult psychotherapy
13. Developing services and systems using attachment theory
Glossary
Index