Sentences with phrase «insecure attachment representation»

Prolonged family distress and insecure attachment representation may in turn complicate the development of social skills and make it more difficult to engage in satisfying intimate relationships which may eventually also hamper life - satisfaction during adulthood [12].

The statistically demonstrable connection between the term of the stay in the residential home and an especially insecure attachment representation does not suggest that such an intervention is efficient.

Insecure attachment representations and child personal narrative structure: implications for delayed discourse in preschool - age children.

Nonclinical participants with insecure attachment representations showed a global response inhibition to the Stroop task.

As a result, mothers with insecure attachment representations are much less likely to be sensitive to their babies» cues than mothers with secure representations.39 In fact, research findings implicate insecure attachment representations — due presumably to maltreatment in infancy — in physical abuse of infants and young children by their parents.40

Furthermore, not enough data was available to include the comparison of secure vs. insecure attachment representations, because of the low number of securely attached patients in the current sample.

Extending the findings by analyzing differences between each attachment status separately, or between secure and insecure attachment representations will further portraying the picture of autonomic reactions to social stress in the different attachment representations.

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Usually, these intervention programs are designed to enhance parental sensitivity, the ability to accurately perceive children's attachment signals, and the ability to respond to these signals in a prompt and appropriate manner.2 The ultimate goal of these interventions is to turn insecure - avoidant (A) and insecure - resistant (C) attachment relationships into secure (B) child - parent attachment relationships.2 In a few programs, the intervention is not only directed at sensitive parental behaviour but also at maternal mental attachment representations, as in the STEEP (Steps Toward Effective Enjoyable Parenting) program described by Egeland.

Here, the work of Main comes to the fore: the Adult Attachment Interview7 enables coders to distinguish reliably between parents with insecure (dismissing, preoccupied or unresolved) states of mind and parents with secure (autonomous) attachment represAttachment Interview7 enables coders to distinguish reliably between parents with insecure (dismissing, preoccupied or unresolved) states of mind and parents with secure (autonomous) attachment represattachment representations.

Beyond romance, the security of mothers» internal working models of attachment has been used to predict the secure or insecure category of the infant attachment formed by the mothers with their own infants.37 Research has found that parents with insecure models recall their own parents less well than other parents38, which may indicate a lack of any coherent mental representation of good parenting.

Maltreated infants randomized to the community standard condition continued to evidence extremely high rates of insecure attachment consistent with that present at baseline.9 Interestingly, in the latter preventive intervention, a didactic and more behaviourally focused intervention was just as effective as one dealing with maternal representations in promoting secure attachment.

Attachment representations were coded as secure, organized insecure and disorganized categories.

The intervention successfully decreased externalizing behavior problems in preschoolers in a high risk sample with an overrepresentation of insecure adult attachment representations (Klein Velderman et al. 2006a, b).