39 research outputs found
What we know about attachment disorders in childhood: a review
Current nosology describes reactive attachment
disorder as represented by two distinct
disorders: reactive attachment disorder,
characterized by markedly inhibited and
emotionally withdrawn behavior toward adult
caregivers, minimally seeking comfort or
minimally responding to comfort in time of
distress, and disinhibited social engagement
disorder, which is represented by an
indiscriminate social behavior, sanctioned
from culture and which crosses social
boundaries, in the presence of unfamiliar
adults. Both disorders, despite their different
phenotypes, are caused by a pathogenic
caregiving environment, repeated changes of
attachment figures, social neglect and
deprivation in the first years of life.
The article examines recent diagnostic criteria
reported in the literature comparing diagnostic
classifications and attempting to
understand the etiology of the disorder.
Unresolved questions exist in current
nosology, which means that the quality of the
evidence supporting the diagnostic criteria
needs to be improved. This review concludes
that, despite the currently available diagnostic
classifications, future longitudinal studies should be conducted to assess the evolution
of reactive attachment disorder over the time
and to discriminate its features from other
psychopathologies
The Coffy Test: a pilot study on mental representations in school aged children with internalizing disorders.
ARACHIDONIC ACID METABOLISM IN THE LUNGS: EFFECT OF HISTAMINE AND SLOW REACTING SUBSTANCE OF ANAPHYLAXIS.
Gli stati della mente rispetto all’attaccamento al caregiver e al partner di coppie nell’assessment preadottivo
Riassunto. In linea con gli studi che hanno rilevato l’importanza della sicurezza dei modelli
di attaccamento – al caregiver e al partner – nella genitorialità biologica, l’obiettivo dello studio è stato esplorare questi costrutti in coppie che hanno iniziato il percorso per diventare genitori tramite l’adozione. 39 coppie senza figli che desiderano adottare e 39 coppie di controllo, tra 35 a 45 anni, sono state valutate con l’Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) e con la Current Relationship Interview (CRI). I due gruppi non differiscono rispetto al modello di attaccamento al caregiver (AAI), mentre i futuri padri adottivi mostrano una prevalenza di classificazioni sicure rispetto al partner (CRI) a confronto con i padri non-adottivi.
In generale, le coppie disponibili all’adozione mostrano una valorizzazione delle relazioni di attaccamento, che potrebbe rivelarsi importante per il successo nell’adozione
A long-term follow-up with late-adopted children and their adoptive mothers: attachment models and developmental outcomes during adolescence.
Introduction. Attachment theorists and researchers (Van den Dries et al., 2009) have suggested that the adoption of abandoned children would be a powerful factor of change their own Internal Working Models (IWMs). Negative experiences built IWMs in children pre-adoption life and enacted in the adoptive families. The adoption success seems to depend also on the quality of adoptive parenting which is strongly associated with a secure states of mind with respect to attachment (Steele et al., 2008).
Method. Aim of this study is the empirical exploration of the development of attachment patterns in late-adopted children from the time of placement to adolescence, and the association with their maternal attachment models. We planned a longitudinal research design with three steps of data collection: time 1 (T1) at the beginning of placement, time 2 (T2) 6 months later and time 3 (T3) around 6/7 years after T2 during adolescence. Participants were 28 late-adopted children - aged 4 to 7 years old at time of adoption and 11 to 14 at T3 - and their 20 adoptive mothers. The following measures were administered to the late-adopted children: (T1) the Separation/Reunion Procedure (SRP-1, Main & Cassidy, 1988), (T2) the SRP-2 and the Manchester Child Attachment Story Task (MCAST, Green et al., 2000), (T3) the Friend and Family Interview (FFI, Steele et al., 2009). The adoptive mothers were assessed with the AAI (Main et al., 2002) at T1 and T3.
Results and discussion. The results presented an over-representation of insecure classifications of the SRP at T1 and a significant revision of them towards security at T2 (p = .002). Furthermore, the children showing this change, were predominantly placed with secure-autonomous adoptive mothers (p =.047). All these data would need to be confirmed at long-term follow-up at T3. These findings seem to suggest that late-placed children would be able to gradually revise their attachment pattern and the attachment security of their adoptive mothers would make it more likely to occur
Emotional competence in middle childhood: the role of attachment representations to mother and father.
SLOW REACTING SUBSTANCE OF ANAPHYLAXIS ENHANCES THE GENERATION OF 12 L HYDROXY 5,8,10,14 EICOSATETRAENOIC ACID IN ISOLATED LUNGS.
Affective regulation strategies during pregnancy and early feeding interactions: a pilot study.
Interaction between beta 1 and beta 2 adrenoceptors in the isolated guinea-pig trachea
The presence of \u3b21 and \u3b22 adrenoceptors is demonstrated in the guinea-pig tracheal smooth muscle and both receptors subserve the same function. The functional relationship between the two \u3b2-receptors in the quinea-pig trachea, which is difficult to explain, is discussed in relation to the capacity of \u3b21 receptors to take over their function, if the \u3b22 receptors are completely blocked