There is strong evidence that children of mothers with insecure attachment styles have poor
outcome trajectories. Maternal sensitivity may be the behaviour which links mother and child …

First published in 2000. Attachment Theory is the current dominant theory of parent-child
relationships and their influence on development. The theory has generated an ever …

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 …

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OBJECTIVE: Maternal maltreatment history and current parenting stress are associated with
parenting difficulties. However, researchers have not investigated the mechanism by which …

Background: The past 10 years have seen a fruitful line of enquiry building on identification
of previously unclassifiable patterns of infant–mother interaction. A critical review of these …

Raising a child with a congenital anomaly or other chronic medical problem challenges
families. Although most families are resilient, depending on families' relative balance of …

This meta-analysis addresses the association between attachment security and each of
three maternal mental health correlates. The meta-analysis is based on 35 studies, 39 …

A programmatic set of meta-analyses by Groh et al.(eg, Groh et al., 2017a) and Madigan et
al.(eg, Madigan et al., 2023) demonstrated that secure child-caregiver attachments are …

This article describes a neurobiological basis for the “first attachment” of the primate infant to
its caretaker. The infant normally internalizes a neurobiological “image” of the behavioral …