ReviewClinical child and family psychology review2016
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Children and Adolescents: Can Attachment Theory Contribute to Its Efficacy?
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Theories of Change and Mediators of Psychotherapy Effectiveness in Adolescents With Externalising Behaviours: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- The Relation Between Attachment and Depression in Children and Adolescents: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2020Pooled it
- Attachment security as an outcome and predictor of response to trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy among maltreated children with posttraumatic stress: A pilot study.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2023Trial
- Attachment Representation Moderates the Effectiveness of Behavioral Parent Training Techniques for Children with ADHD: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Microtrial.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2022Trial
- Does attachment anxiety mediate the persistence of anxiety and depressive symptoms from adolescence to early adulthood?Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Associations Between Scripted Attachment Representations in Late Adolescence and Depression in Adulthood in a Normative and a Higher-Risk Cohort.Emerging adulthood (Print) · 2025Article
- A hope intervention for adolescents: a randomized controlled trial delivered by paraprofessionals.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- Editorial Perspective: On the need for clarity about attachment terminology.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2023Article
- Short version of the Inventory of Parental Representations, a self-report for attachment assessment among adolescents.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Attachment, behavior problems and interventions.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- A Learning Theory Approach to Attachment Theory: Exploring Clinical Applications.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2022Review
- Attachment and the Development of Psychopathology: Introduction to the Special Issue.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Extending the Biopsychosocial Conceptualisation of Chronic Post Surgical Pain in Children and Adolescents: The Family Systems Perspective.Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2022Article
- A Lifespan Development Theory of Insecure Attachment and Internalizing Symptoms: Integrating Meta-Analytic Evidence via a Testable Evolutionary Mis/Match Hypothesis.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Six attachment discourses: convergence, divergence and relay.Attachment & human development · 2021Article
- Attachment and the Development of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: The Role of Regulating Positive and Negative Affect.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2021Article
- Treatment Refractory Internalizing Behaviour Across Disorders: An Aetiological Model for Severe Emotion Dysregulation in Adolescence.Child psychiatry and human development · 2021Article
- Do risk profiles moderate the relation between age of onset of disruptive behaviour and two types of externalising problems among adolescents admitted to secure residential care?Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2021Article
- Intensive home treatment for adolescents in psychiatric crisis.BMC psychiatry · 2019Observational
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Abstract
Meta-analyses consistently demonstrate that cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) provides effective evidence-based treatment for children and adolescents with emotional and behaviour problems. Also consistent across meta-analyses is the observation that CBT treatment effects are often medium in size. This observation has instigated a search for factors that could help explain the limited treatment effects and that could be focused upon to enhance CBT treatment outcomes. The current qualitative review focuses on the parent-child attachment relationship as one factor that could be relevant to enhance CBT treatment effects. This review first acknowledges reasons why CBT has historically not been attracted to attachment theory and its postulates. Second, recent evidence is examined to evaluate whether attachment can be approached from a cognitive schema perspective. Subsequently, research is described showing how restoring attachment relationships could result in large treatment effects. Finally, this evidence is integrated in a model of attachment assessment and intervention that might be compatible with CBT. In sum, this review suggests that restoring trust in insecure parent-child attachment relationships can be integrated within CBT and could contribute to its treatment outcomes.
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