INFANT ATTACHMENT - SUGGESTED ADDITIONAL READING

General Information:

Benoit, Diane. (2000). Attachment and parent-infant relationships...a review of attachment theory and research. Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies (OACAS) Journal, 44(1), 13-22.

Boris, N. & Zeanah, C. (1999). Disturbances and disorders of attachment in infancy: an overview. Infant Mental Health Journal, 20(1), 1-9.

Cassidy, J. & Shaver, P. R. (Eds.) (1999). Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications. New York: Guilford Press.

Karen, Robert. (1994). Becoming attached - First relationships and how they shape our capacity to love. New York: Oxford University Press.

Goldberg, S. (2000). Attachment and Development. In the Texts in Developmental Psychology Series. New York: Oxford.

Assessing Infant Attachment:

Boris, N., Yutaka, A. & Zeanah, C. (1999). The development of infant-parent attachment: Considerations for assessment. Infants and Young Children, 11(4), 1-10.

Boris, N., Fueyo, M. & Zeanah, C. (1997). The clinical assessment of attachment in children under five. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 36(2), 291-293.

Attachment-related Interventions:

Field, T. (1998). Maternal depression: Effects on infants and early interventions. Preventive Medicine, 27, 200-203.

Krupka, A. (1998). Promoting resilience through secure attachment: A brief intervention for adolescent mothers and their infants. Conference paper. For more information, contact krupka@uwo.ca or 519-661-2111 ext. 84702.

Lojkasek, M., Cohen, N.J. & Muir, E. (1994). Where is the infant in infant intervention? A review of the literature on changing troubled mother-infant relationships. Journal of Psychotherapy Research, 31, 208-220.

Muir, E. (1992). Watching, waiting, & wondering: Applying psychoanalytic principles to mother-infant intervention. Infant Mental Health Journal, 13, 319-328.

Niccols, A. & Mohamed, S. (2000). Parent training in groups: Pilot study of “Right from the Start”. Journal of Early Intervention, 23, 133-143.

Van IJzendoorn, M. H., Juffer, F. & Duyvesteyn, M. G. C. (1995). Breaking the intergenerational cycle of insecure attachment: A review of the effects of attachment-based interventions on maternal sensitivity and infant security. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 36, 225-248.

Attachment and Infant Brain Development:

Atkinson, L. & Zucker, K. J. (Eds.) (1997). Attachment and psychopathology. New York: Guilford Press.

Bradley, S.J. (2000). Affect Regulation and the Development of Psychopathology. New York: Guilford Press.

Gunnar, Megan R. (1998). Quality of early care and buffering of neuroendocrine stress reactions: Potential effects on the developing human brain. Preventive Medicine, 27, 208-211.

Kraemer, G. W. (1992). A psychobiological theory of attachment. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 15, 493-541.

Nachmias, M., Gunnar, M., Mangelsdorf, S., Parritz, R. & Buss, K. (1996). Behavioral inhibition and stress reactivity: The moderating role of attachment security. Child Development, 67, 508-522.

Nelson, E. E. & Panksepp, J. (1998). Brain substrates of infant-mother attachment: Contributions of opioids, oxytocin, and norepinephrine. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 22, 437-452.

Culture and Attachment:

Hardwood, R.L, Miller, J.G., & Irizarry, N.L. (1995). Culture and Attachment: Perceptions of the Child in Context. New York: Guilford press.