ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology2019
Attachment across the lifespan: insights from adoptive families.
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- Enhancing diurnal cortisol regulation among young children adopted internationally: A randomized controlled trial of a parenting-based intervention.Development and psychopathology · 2020Trial
- Factor Structure and Psychometric Evaluation of the Parent-Child Sleep Interactions Scale (PSIS) Among Children Adopted From Foster Care.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Attachment Classification, Emotion Regulation, and Defense Mechanisms: An Integrative Narrative Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Mental Models of Attachment in Adoptive Parents and Children: The Case of Institutionalized and Adopted Young Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Potential for the medial prefrontal cortex to link mentalizing and attachment schemas.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Review
- A healthy start: examining the contribution of caregiving quality to child physical health from birth to 14 years.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Probing the content of affective semantic memory following caregiving-related early adversity.Developmental science · 2024Article
- Epigenetic aging studies of pair bonding in prairie voles.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Secure attachment priming inhibits the generalization of conditioned fear.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Associations of Duration of Preadoption Out-of-home Care, Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders and Adoptive Family Functioning with Later Psychiatric Disorders of Adoptees.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- Leveraging the interpersonal context of child development to promote family resilience: A universal prevention approach from preconception through early childhood.Mental health & prevention · 2024Article
- Attachment-Related Differences in Emotion Regulation in Adults: A Systematic Review on Attachment Representations.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Attachment, Mentalizing and Trauma: Then (1992) and Now (2022).Brain sciences · 2023Review
- The role of developmental caregiving programming in modulating our affiliation tendency and the vulnerability to social anxiety and eating disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Adoption and trauma: Risks, recovery, and the lived experience of adoption.Child abuse & neglect · 2022Article
- Attachment Stories in Middle Childhood: Reliability and Validity of Clinical and Nonclinical Children's Narratives in a Structured Setting.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Changes in objectively measured sleep among internationally adopted children in 1-year follow-up during the first years in new families.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- The Neurobiology of Infant Attachment-Trauma and Disruption of Parent-Infant Interactions.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Review
- Object attachment as we grow older.Current opinion in psychology · 2021Review
- Aggressiveness in Adopted and Non-Adopted Teens: The Role of Parenting, Attachment Security, and Gender.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Research with adoptive families offers novel insights into longstanding questions about the significance of attachment across the lifespan. We illustrate this by reviewing adoption research addressing two of attachment theory's central ideas. First, studies of children who were adopted after experiencing severe adversity offer powerful tests of the unique consequences of experiences in early attachment relationships. Although children who experience early maltreatment or institutionalization show remarkable recovery in the quality of their attachments after being placed with their adoptive families, experiencing pre-adoptive adversity also has long-lasting repercussions for these individuals' later attachment representations. Second, adoptive families allow for genetically-informed examinations of the intergenerational transmission process. Indeed, despite the lack of genetic relatedness, adoptive parents' attachment representations are associated with their children's attachment behaviors and representations across childhood and adolescence.
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