Zeynep Biringen, Ph.D. has spent the last twenty years conducting research
on emotional availability in parent - child relationships, adding to the growing body of scientific knowledge on the subject that has been amassed in the field of child - parent attachment.
Dr. Biringen's first book, Raising a Secure Child: Creating an Emotional Connection Between You and Your Child, (published in 2004 by Penguin), distilled over 40 years of research on attachment and two decades of research
on emotional availability into a single volume.
She will soon be publishing a scholarly book
on emotional availability.
A multi-method perspective
on emotional availability in the postpartum period, Parenting: Science & Practice.
Dr. Biringen has since become the foremost researcher
on emotional availability in parent - child relationships.
Her research interests focus
on emotional availability as an assessment and also as an intervention.
Numerous colleagues nationally and internationally are doing important work
on emotional availability, testing its effectiveness as an observational and self - report assessment.
Not exact matches
Some researchers argue that the crucial ingredient is
emotional availability at bedtime — a characteristic that depends
on a variety of behaviors.
Penn State researcher Douglas Teti examined the role of
emotional availability on infant sleep and found that regardless of a family's night - time routine, infants with parents who were responsive and warm had fewer night wakings and an easier time drifting off.
On the other hand, sensitivity refers to the
emotional availability or the attentiveness to the child's needs.
The answer really depends
on you — your values, your sex drive, your age, your health, your
emotional state, the ready
availability of a partner or partners, etc..
While, individually, we have responsibility to improve our own wellness, most people are significantly influenced by social forces in the form of fitness trends, advertisements, food costs and
availability and, of particular concern, physical, biochemical and mental -
emotional stress brought
on by life in modern society — life increasingly characterized by existence in Max Weber's steel shell.
He brings not only his clinical knowledge to this workshop, but also his personal experience to help you work
on the self - awareness and
emotional availability necessary to find and sustain a loving, healthy relationship.
Each candidate completes a preliminary questionnaire, have a confidential meeting where they are screened and evaluated based
on appearance, personality, social compatibility and
emotional availability.
On collegiate turf, doltish Michael would be no competition for Laney's feelings against the quick - witted Troy, whose aloofness is easily romanticized, but in the «real world» (ever too bounce - lit by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki to seem a shock to the system), Michael's stable career and
emotional availability even the score.
The amount and
availability of non-economic damages related to
emotional distress can vary depending
on the nature of your bodily injuries and personal property damage related to the claim.
Based
on our collection of Foster Care Social Worker example resumes, main job requirements are people skills, social work expertise, empathy,
emotional stability, stamina,
availability for field work, recordkeeping, and decision making.
Parents who are unable to reflect back
on their childhood history and integrate their experiences have a limited capacity for
emotional availability to their children (Crandell & Hobson, 1999).
Moreover, the chaos and
emotional (and sometimes financial) strain that the divorce process puts
on parents often makes it difficult for them to provide the security and
availability for their children, further leaving the child's
emotional and physical needs unmet...
Gurit Birnbaum presented research
on how a partner's responsiveness (in other words, their
emotional availability and supportiveness) influences a person's desire for sex with them during a first impression, and how this differs based
on attachment style and gender.
Emotional availability in a marriage will allow you to feel supported, more self confident and will even help to minimize the stress in your life, as you can rely
on your spouse to bear your load with you.
Parent Coaching relies
on volunteers who generously lend their time and
emotional energy, so
availability is limited.
The course must include information
on the following issues: (1) the
emotional effects of divorce
on parents; (2) the
emotional and behavioral reactions to divorce by young children and adolescents; (3) parenting issues relating to the concerns and needs of children at different development stages; (4) stress indicators in young children and adolescents; (5) conflict management; (6) family stabilization through development of a co-parenting relationship; (7) the financial responsibilities of parenting; (8) family violence, spousal abuse, and child abuse and neglect; and (9) the
availability of community services and resources.
Based
on attachment theory, developed by John Bowlby beginning in the 1950s, as well as
emotional perspectives of Emde and Mahler, Pine, and Bergman, Emotional Availability (EA) is a research - based, scientifically driven way of understanding the quality of communication and connection between a parent (or caregiver) a
emotional perspectives of Emde and Mahler, Pine, and Bergman,
Emotional Availability (EA) is a research - based, scientifically driven way of understanding the quality of communication and connection between a parent (or caregiver) a
Emotional Availability (EA) is a research - based, scientifically driven way of understanding the quality of communication and connection between a parent (or caregiver) and child.
Emotional availability in mother / toddler dyads
on different risk statuses.
Emotional Availability: Differential predictions to infant attachment and kindergarten adjustment based
on observation time and context.
The effects of mother - child
emotional availability on language development in preterm and full - term dyads.
Emotional availability in a sample of mothers with a history of abuse, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry: Interdisciplinary perspectives
on mental health and social justice, 77, 624 - 628.
The focus is
on describing how to recognize a secure attachment and the 3 forms of insecure attachment, as well as offers beginning ideas
on how to correct problems of
emotional attachment and
emotional availability.
This study focuses
on perceived
emotional availability of mothers as an indicator of attachment because caregiver
emotional availability is a fundamental building block of attachment orientations (Bretherton, 2000).
Emotional availability: concept, research, and window
on developmental psychopathology.
In recognition of the potential value of evidence - based parenting programmes, policymakers and scholars in recent years have taken a proactive stance to promote an increase in the
availability of parenting programmes at the population level.3, 11,8 For example, the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine42 recommended in their report
on «Preventing Mental,
Emotional and Behavioural Disorders Amongst Young People» that parenting programmes should be more widely disseminated and accessible.
Mother's presence is not enough: The effect of
emotional availability on infant exploration and play
In line with this lack of literature, the present paper reports
on a pilot study aimed at investigating longitudinally the quality of mother — child interactions, with specific reference to
emotional availability (EA), in a group of mother — child pairs involved in infant massage classes.
In this study focused
on school aged children, we hypothesize that the impact of maternal depressive symptomatology
on child social preference is mediated by the quality of mother - child interactions, particularly the
emotional availability, warmth, and sensitive - responding of the parent to child.