Introduction
Part 1: Attachment Theory, Models and Measures
1. Attachment Behaviour
2. Emotions and their Regulation
3. The Internal Working Model
4. Patterns of Attachment
5. Attachment in Adulthood
Part 2: Attachment Patterns, Types and Styles
6. Secure Attachments in Childhood
7. Secure Attachments in Adulthood
8. Avoidant Attachments in Childhood
9. Avoidant and Dismissing Attachments in Adulthood
10. Ambivalent Attachments in Childhood
11. Anxious and Preoccupied Attachments in Adulthood
12. Disorganised and Controlling Attachments in Childhood
13. Fearful Avoidant Attachments and Unresolved States of Mind in
Adulthood
Part 3: Issues and Debates
14. Temperament, Disability and Gender: The Interaction of Nature
and Nurture
15. Attachment across the Lifecourse: Continuity and Discontinuity,
Stability and Change
16. Use and Misuses of Attachment Theory
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
This succinct and highly readable book provides an engaging and accessible guide to the fascinating and fast-moving field of attachment theory.
David Howe OBE is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at
the University of East Anglia, UK.
Lucy Betts is a Professor in Social Developmental Psychology
and Lead Research Co-ordinator for the School of Social Sciences at
Nottingham Trent University, UK.
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