Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
CLINICAL PERSPECTIVESThe Clinical Assessment of Attachment in Children Under Five
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Beyond Reactive Attachment Disorder: How Might Attachment Research Inform Child Psychiatry Practice?
2017, Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North AmericaCitation Excerpt :This article presupposes that most child psychiatrists will not become expert in assessing early relationships and attachment. Even so, treatment planning for young children requires that child psychiatrists be expert in case formulation,13 and understanding how attachment informs comprehensive evaluation in early childhood is critical.14 As Allen’s1 provocative recent article underscores, the stakes are high.
Practice Parameter for the Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Reactive Attachment Disorder and Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
2016, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryCitation Excerpt :Structured observations allow the clinician to capture how the child behaves with a familiar and an unfamiliar adult, especially if the interactions are conducted in parallel.62 A number of approaches to structuring a comprehensive assessment of a caregiver−child relationship have been described98,99 other than the Strange Situation Procedure, which has been extensively validated16,19,20,21 but is more likely to be used for research purposes. These alternative approaches generally involve some combination of episodes such as play, teaching, and separation/reunion and involve careful observations of how the child behaves with a preferred attachment figure compared with an unfamiliar adult.
Relationship Assessment in Clinical Practice
2009, Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North AmericaCitation Excerpt :Parents can demonstrate sensitivity by preparing a child for the separation and clinicians can learn about child temperament by the distress response to the separation.29 However, the information most reflective of the quality of the attachment is the dyad's ability to resolve separation distress together during the reunion.30,31 Observations of child-parent interaction and attention to the manner in which the parent talks about the child allow a clinician to develop clinical hypotheses as part of the clinical formulation.
Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with reactive attachment disorder of infancy and early childhood
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Dr. Boris is supported by AACAP/NIMH K-award 009991-03.