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Langlois, Riel – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2017
John Bowlby's (1982) attachment theory can be applied to an existing therapeutic framework to enhance the effectiveness of therapy. Using the Adult Attachment Inventory (AAI), a therapist can identify the type of attachment the client formed with his/her caregivers, and use this to navigate an authentic attachment between client and therapist.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Adults, Counselor Client Relationship
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McFarland-Piazza, Laura; Hazen, Nancy; Jacobvitz, Deborah; Boyd-Soisson, Erin – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
The association between fathers' adult attachment representations and their recollections of childhood experiences with their caregiving quality with their eight-month-old infants and with father-infant attachment classification was examined in a longitudinal study of 117 fathers and their infants. Sensitive caregiving was related to…
Descriptors: Children, Attachment Behavior, Classification, Infants
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van Ijzendoorn, Marinus H; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
This meta-analysis on 33 studies, including more than 2,000 Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) classifications, presents distributions of AAI classifications in samples of nonclinical fathers and mothers, in adolescents, in samples from different cultures, and in clinical groups. Fathers, adolescents, and participants from different countries show…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Standards