Atypical Attachment in Infancy and Early Childhood Among Children at Developmental Risk

by Vondra, Joan; Barnett, Douglas

• ISBN13: 9780631215929
• ISBN10: 0631215921
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-07
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book brings together current theory and research about atypical attachments in infants and young children at developmental risk in order to illustrate and understand some of the key issues in cases that do not fit traditional attachment patterns.

Author Biography

Joan I. Vondra received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1986. She is an Associate Professor of Psychology in Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests are in the development of competence among children at social and demographic risk for later school problems and failure.

Douglas Barnett received his Ph.D. from University of Rochester in 1993. He is Associate Professor of Psychology at Wayne State University in Detroit. His research interests include parenting and interventions that promote the development of health attachments and sense of self among children at high risk for socioemotional and scholastic problems.

Table of Contents

Abstract	v
Atypical Patterns of Early Attachment: Theory, Research, and Current Directions	1	(24)
Douglas Barnett
Joan I. Vondra
Neurological Aspects of the Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment Classification System: Differentiating Quality of the Attachment Relationship from Neurological Impairment	25	(20)
Sandra Pipp-Siegel
Clifford H. Siegel
Janet Dean
Maternal Sensitivity, Child Functional Level, and Attachment in Down Syndrome	45	(22)
Leslie Atkinson
Vivienne C. Chisholm
Brian Scott
Susan Goldberg
Brian E. Vaughn
Janis Blackwell
Susan Dickens
Frances Tam
Maternal Frightened, Frightening, or Atypical Behavior and Disorganized Infant Attachment Patterns	67	(30)
Karlen Lyons-Ruth
Elisa Bronfman
Elizabeth Parsons
Maltreatment, Negative Expressivity, and the Development of Type D Attachments from 12 to 24 Months of Age	97	(22)
Douglas Barnett
Jody Ganiban
Dante Circchetti
Stability and Change in Infant Attachment in a Low-Income Sample	119	(26)
Joan I. Vondra
Katherine Dowdell Hommerding
Daniel S. Shaw
Danger and Development: The Organization of Self-Protective Strategies	145	(27)
Patricia McKinsey Crittenden
Atypical Patterns of Early Attachment: Discussion and Future Directions	172	(21)
Douglas Barnett
Christine M. Butler
Joan I. Vondra
References	193	(17)
Acknowledgments	210