A-Z of Attachment

David Wilkins is Senior Research Fellow, Tilda Goldberg Centre, University of Bedfordshire, UK

David Shemmings is Professor of Child Protection Research at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Yvonne Shemmings is an Independent Continuing Professional Development Specialist and is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

This book provides students and practitioners with an essential introduction to the fundamental features, main themes and key thinkers in attachment

Launching Palgrave's interdisciplinary Professional Keywords series, this reader-friendly reference guide distils the study of attachment into digestible, yet authoritative, chunks. With over 60 alphabetized entries, it is the perfect introduction to the key concepts, debates and thinkers within this increasingly exploration of human behaviour.

This book provides students and practitioners with an essential introduction to the fundamental features, main themes and key thinkers in attachment

List Of Proposed Entries:.- Adult Attachment.- Adult Attachment Interview (AAI).- Avoidant Attachment.- Ambivalent-Resistant Attachment.- Attachment Disorders.- Attunement And Sensitivity.- Bonding.- Bowlby, John.- Child Attachment Interview (CAI).- Child Maltreatment.- Criticisms Of Attachment Theory.- Cultural Differences.- Day Care And Childminding.- Disability And Attachment.- Disorganised Attachment.- Dissociation.- Emotion (Or 'Affect') Regulation.- Evolutionary Insights.- Exploration And Security.- Fathers.- Fostering And Adoption.- Gender.- Genetics Influences On Attachment.- Goal-Corrected Behaviour.- Harlow's Monkeys.- History Of Attachment Theory And Research.- HPA-Axis And Biochemistry.- Insecure Attachment.- Internal Working Model.- Interventions, Attachment-Based.- Kinship Care.- Later Life Attachments.- Loss And Bereavement.- Measures Of Attachment.- Memory.- Mentalisation And Reflective Function.- Mothers.- Multiple Attachments.- Nature And Nurture Arguments.- Neglected Children.- Neurobiological Insights.- Object Relations Theory.- Parenting.- Proximity-Seeking And Safe-Haven Behaviours.- Psychopathology And Mental Ill-Health.- Research Methods.- Resilience And Protective Factors.- Romantic Attachments.- Secure Base.- Secure Attachment.- Separation Protest.- Story Stem Completion.- Strange Situation Procedure (SSP).- Temperament.- Theory Of Mind.- Trans-Generational Transmission.- Trust.- Unresolved Loss And Trauma.- Video-Based Intervention To Promote Positive Parenting (VIPP).- 'Zero Empathy'