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ReviewAttachment & human development2017

Disorganized attachment in infancy: a review of the phenomenon and its implications for clinicians and policy-makers.

Pehr Granqvist, L Alan Sroufe, Mary Dozier, Erik Hesse, Miriam Steele, Marinus van Ijzendoorn, Judith Solomon, Carlo Schuengel, Pasco Fearon, Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg and 33 more

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43 authors.

Pehr Granqvista Department of Psychology , Stockholm University , Stockholm , Sweden.
L Alan Sroufeb Institute of Child Development , University of Minnesota , Minneapolis , MN , USA.
Mary Dozierc Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences , University of Delaware , Newark , NY , USA.
Erik Hessed Department of Psychology , University of California , Berkeley , CA , USA.
Miriam Steelee Psychology Department , The New School , New York , NY , USA.
Marinus van Ijzendoornf Department of Psychology, Education, and Child Studies , Erasmus University Rotterdam , Rotterdam , The Netherlands.
Judith Solomong Department of Public Health & Primary Care , University of Cambridge , Cambridge , UK.
Carlo Schuengelh Clinical Child and Family Studies and Amsterdam Public Health , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , Amsterdam , The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5501-3341
Pasco Fearoni Research Department of Clinical , Educational and Health Psychology, University College of London , London , UK.
Marian Bakermans-Kranenburgj Child and Family Studies , Leiden University , Leiden , The Netherlands.
Howard Steelee Psychology Department , The New School , New York , NY , USA.
Jude Cassidyk Psychology Department , University of Maryland , Washington DC , USA.
Elizabeth Carlsonb Institute of Child Development , University of Minnesota , Minneapolis , MN , USA.
Sheri Madiganl Department of Psychology , University of Calgary , Calgary , Canada.
Deborah Jacobvitzm Department of Psychology , The University of Texas , Austin , TX , USA.
Sarah Fostern Faculty of Health and Life Sciences , University of Northumbria , Newcastle , UK.
Kazuko Behrenso Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences , SUNY Polytechnic Institute , Utica , NY , USA.
Anne Rifkin-Graboip the Neurodevelopmental Research Center , the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences , Singapore , Singapore.
Naomi Gribneaug Department of Public Health & Primary Care , University of Cambridge , Cambridge , UK.
Gottfried Spanglerq Developmental and Educational Psychology , University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , Erlangen , Germany.
Mary J Wardr Department of Pediatrics , Weill Cornell Medical College , New York , NY , USA.
Mary Trues Psychology Department , St Mary's College of California , Moraga , NY , USA.
Susan Spiekert Center on Human Development and Disability , University of Washington , Seattle , MA , USA.
Sophie Reijmang Department of Public Health & Primary Care , University of Cambridge , Cambridge , UK.
Samantha Reiszg Department of Public Health & Primary Care , University of Cambridge , Cambridge , UK.
Anne Tharnerf Department of Psychology, Education, and Child Studies , Erasmus University Rotterdam , Rotterdam , The Netherlands.
Frances Nkarad Department of Psychology , University of California , Berkeley , CA , USA.
Ruth Goldwynv Child and Adolsecent Mental Health Service, Trafford Children and Young Peoples Service , Manchester , UK.
June Sroufew Minnesota Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis , Minneapolis , MI , USA.
David Pedersonx Department of Psychology , University of Western Ontario , London , ON , Canada.
Deanne Pedersony University of Western Ontario , London , ON , Canada.
Robert Weigandz T. Denny Sanford School of Social & Family Dynamics , Arizona State University , Tempe , AZ , USA.
Daniel Siegelaa School of Medicine , University of California , Los Angeles , CA , USA.
Nino Dazziab Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology , Sapienza University of Rome , Rome , Italy.
Kristin Bernardac Department of Psychology , Stony Brook University , Stony Brook , NY , USA.
Peter Fonagyi Research Department of Clinical , Educational and Health Psychology, University College of London , London , UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0229-0091
Everett Watersac Department of Psychology , Stony Brook University , Stony Brook , NY , USA.
Sheree Tothad The Mt. Hope Family Center , University of Rochester , Rochester , NY , USA.
Dante Cicchettib Institute of Child Development , University of Minnesota , Minneapolis , MN , USA.
Charles H Zeanahae Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health , Tulane University , New Orleans , LA , USA.
Karlen Lyons-Ruthaf Department of Psychiatry , Harvard Medical School , Boston , MA , USA.
Mary Maind Department of Psychology , University of California , Berkeley , CA , USA.
Robbie Duschinskyg Department of Public Health & Primary Care , University of Cambridge , Cambridge , UK.

Funding

Neurobiology of Mothering and Infant StressR01HD079484 · NICHD · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI BOSQUET ENLOW, MICHELLE A, GRANT, PATRICIA ELLEN · 2015 to 2019
$3.6M
Psychopathology and Controlling Behavior in Adolescents.R01MH062030 · NIMH · CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE · PI LYONS-RUTH, KARLEN · 2001 to 2004
$946k
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD079484NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH062030Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disorganized/Disoriented (D) attachment has seen widespread interest from policy makers, practitioners, and clinicians in recent years. However, some of this interest seems to have been based on some false assumptions that (1) attachment measures can be used as definitive assessments of the individual in forensic/child protection settings and that disorganized attachment (2) reliably indicates child maltreatment, (3) is a strong predictor of pathology, and (4) represents a fixed or static "trait" of the child, impervious to development or help. This paper summarizes the evidence showing that these four assumptions are false and misleading. The paper reviews what is known about disorganized infant attachment and clarifies the implications of the classification for clinical and welfare practice with children. In particular, the difference between disorganized attachment and attachment disorder is examined, and a strong case is made for the value of attachment theory for supportive work with families and for the development and evaluation of evidence-based caregiving interventions.

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Object AttachmentAdministrative PersonnelBehaviorChild AbuseChild CareChild, PreschoolChild WelfareHumansInfantInfant, NewbornReactive Attachment Disorderattachment-based interventionsattachment disorderDisorganized attachmentinfancymaltreatment

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PMID28745146
PMCPMC5600694

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