Major developments in attachment research over the past 2 decades have introduced
parental mentalization as a predictor of infant–parent attachment security. Parental …

Poverty and associated health, nutrition, and social factors prevent at least 200 million
children in developing countries from attaining their developmental potential. We review the …

Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı's influential volume was a work of masterful scholarship and field-
defining thought that challenged the existing assumptions in mainstream western …

The Classic Edition of Heidi Keller's Cultures of Infancy, first published in 2007, includes a
new introduction by the author, which describes for readers the original context of her work …

This widely used practitioner resource and course text provides an engaging overview of
developmental theory and research, with a focus on what practitioners need to know. The …

Written in a conversational style that transforms complex ideas into accessible ones, this
international best-selling textbook provides an interdisciplinary review of the theories and …

The reliability and validity of the Attachment Q Sort (AQS; Waters & Deane, 1985) was tested
in a series of meta‐analyses on 139 studies with 13,835 children. The observer AQS …

Do caregivers in non‐Western communities adapt their behaviors to the needs of infants?
This question reflects one of the most long‐standing debates on the universality versus …

Unlike many social psychological theories that are limited by the Western cultural context in
which they were developed, attachment theory is an exception in that it has been examined …

This bestselling textbook provides an engaging introduction to 11 major theories about
human development that continue to guide research, intervention, and practice. The theories …