Emanuel Miller Lecture: Attachment insecurity, disinhibited attachment, and attachment disorders: where do research findings leave the concepts?
Emanuel Miller Lecture: Attachment insecurity, disinhibited attachment, and attachment disorders: where do research findings leave the concepts?
Background: Despite the evidence on anomalous attachment patterns, there has been a tendency to interpret most of these as reflecting differences in security/insecurity.
Methods: Empirical research findings are reviewed in relation to attachment/insecurity as evident in both infancy and later childhood, disorganised attachment, inhibited attachment disorder, and disinhibited attachment disorder.
Findings: Substantial differences are found in the correlates and meaning of these different features, as well as in the patterns associated with conditions such as autism, psychopathy, and Williams syndrome.
Conclusions: It is seriously misleading to view all of these patterns through the lens of security/insecurity. This heterogeneity in social relationship features necessarily has implications for the assessment measures for social relationships that need to be used.
attachment insecurity, disorganised attachment, inhibited attachment disorder, disinhibited attachment disorder, measures of attachment
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Rutter, Michael
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Kreppner, Jana
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Sonuga-Barke, Edmund
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May 2009
Rutter, Michael
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Kreppner, Jana
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Sonuga-Barke, Edmund
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Rutter, Michael, Kreppner, Jana and Sonuga-Barke, Edmund
(2009)
Emanuel Miller Lecture: Attachment insecurity, disinhibited attachment, and attachment disorders: where do research findings leave the concepts?
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50 (5), .
(doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02042.x).
Abstract
Background: Despite the evidence on anomalous attachment patterns, there has been a tendency to interpret most of these as reflecting differences in security/insecurity.
Methods: Empirical research findings are reviewed in relation to attachment/insecurity as evident in both infancy and later childhood, disorganised attachment, inhibited attachment disorder, and disinhibited attachment disorder.
Findings: Substantial differences are found in the correlates and meaning of these different features, as well as in the patterns associated with conditions such as autism, psychopathy, and Williams syndrome.
Conclusions: It is seriously misleading to view all of these patterns through the lens of security/insecurity. This heterogeneity in social relationship features necessarily has implications for the assessment measures for social relationships that need to be used.
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Published date: May 2009
Keywords:
attachment insecurity, disorganised attachment, inhibited attachment disorder, disinhibited attachment disorder, measures of attachment
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Clinical Neurosciences
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/66029
ISSN: 0021-9630
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Edmund Sonuga-Barke
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