Background Though noted in the clinical literature for more than 50 years, attachment
disorders have been studied systematically only recently. In part because of the ubiquity of …

Study of attachment in the 1970s and 1980s focused on operationalizing and validating
many of the tenets of attachment theory articulated in Bowlby's landmark trilogy, Attachment …

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM‐5) marks the
first significant revision of the publication since the DSM‐IV in 1994. Changes to the DSM …

Exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) can have long-lasting effects on a child's socio-
emotional and neurological development. Research has focused on the effects of IPV on …

Background The aim of this study is to examine the prevalence of mental disorders in 6-to 12-
year-old foster children and assess comorbidity and risk factors. Methods Information on …

The conceptual issues are briefly noted with respect to the distinctions between
classification and diagnosis; the question of whether mental disorders can be considered to …

Attachment has been assessed in the extreme environment of orphanages, but an important
issue to be addressed in this chapter is whether in addition to standard assessment …

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the validity of criteria for indiscriminately
social/disinhibited and emotionally withdrawn/inhibited reactive attachment disorder (RAD) …

This Practice Parameter is a revision of a previous Parameter addressing reactive
attachment disorder that was published in 2005. It reviews the current status of reactive …

In a short-term longitudinal design we investigated maternal sensitivity, child
responsiveness, attachment, and indiscriminate friendliness in families with children …