Attachment and Family Systems Family Process

by Wood, Beatrice

• ISBN13: 9781405127172
• ISBN10: 1405127171
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-22
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary and multinational view of attachment theory as it applies to family systems, and family systems theory as it extends attachment theory. The essays included represent a beginning effort to integrate family systems theory and attachment theory, and to stimulate creative exchanges among scientists and practitioners from family systems and developmental psychology, thus leading to a research agenda including collaborative efforts from both disciplines.

Author Biography

Beatrice L. Wood, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo, and President of the Board of Directors for the journal Family Process. Her research focuses on family relational processes as they relate to child disorder and well being.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Network Perspective: An Integration of Attachment and Family Systems Theories

Attachment, Social Rank, and Affect Regulation: Speculations on an Ethological Approach to Family Interaction

Family Systems Theory, Attachment Theory, and Culture

Observing Mother-Child Relationships Across Generations: Boundary Patterns, Attachment, and the Transmission of Caregiving

Relieving Parentified Children's Burdens in Families with Insecure Attachment Patterns

Attachment, Mastery, and Interdependence: A Model of Parenting Process

Attachment Security in Couple Relationships: A Systemic Model and Its Implications for Family Dynamics

Balancing the Family and the Collective in Raising Children: Why Communal Sleeping in Kibbutzim Was Predestined to End

Attachment and Family Therapy: Clinical Utility of Adolescent-Family Attachment Research

Attachment and Affect Regulation: A Framework for Family Treatment of Conduct Disorder

Depression and Attachment in Families: A Child-Focused Perspective

Links between Community Violence and the Family System: Evidence from Children's Feelings of Relatedness and Perceptions of Parent Behavior

The Epigenesis of the Family System as a Context for Individual Development

Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Implications for Attachment Theory and Family Therapy

Conceptual Links between Byng-Hall's Theory of Parentification and the Emotional Security Hypothesis

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