The World of Attachment seen through the eyes of the Handbooks of Attachment

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Contemporary Wiradjuri relatedness in Peak Hill, New South Wales.

Wiradjuri Aboriginal people in Peak Hill, a small economically-declining town in central rural New South Wales, have been subjected to a century of government policies included segregation, assimilation, and forced relocations. Despite this local, colonial history Peak Hill Wiradjuri continue to experience daily life in a distinctively Wiradjuri way. To ‘be Wiradjuri’ is to be embedded within a complex web of close relationships that are socially, morally and emotionally developed with both kin and friends, human and non-human subjects. Despite dramatic social and cultural transformations in Wiradjuri meanings and practices of relatedness, the Wiradjuri social world and their ways of self-experience remain informed by past practices. To understand contemporary socialities, and thus the significance of these transformations, this thesis is an examination of the ways in which the moral and emotional order of relatedness governs relatedness, where daily lived experience of shared emotional states can be understood in terms of a language for the self and moral framework. Specifically, this thesis is an exploration of how Wiradjuri people negotiate relatedness in a space in which shared and contrasting Wiradjuri and non-Wiradjuri inter-subjectivities are experienced. This study draws on historical research and ethnographical fieldwork to move beyond an analysis of kinship in terms of structures, roles or values to explore the deeper foundations of emotions and states of being in everyday life

Preadolescent internalizing and externalizing psychopathology : a developmental perspective

In the field of child psychopathology research, a growing number of longitudinal studies have investigated early developmental precursors of maladaptive outcomes (see for reviews: Campbell, 1995; Koot, 1995; Sameroff and Seifer, 1990). The multitude of theoretical assumptions and related risk factors and outcomes represented by these studies calls for a more integrated approach to the study of the development of psychopathology. In such an approach, the developmental psychopathology paradigm and the distinction between internalizing and externalizing psychopathology are especially useful. The developmental psychopathology paradigm is a promising theoretical framework which provides a structured approach to the development of maladaptation across the life-span. This approach centers around the identification of endogenous and environmental factors that are involved in the early origins, course, and detection of psychopathology (Cicchetti and Cohen, 1995a; Koot, 2000). Because of the emphasis on the developmental aspect of psychopathology in this approach, the distinction between internalizing and externalizing expressions of dysfunction is of special interest, since it is the only consistently empirically identified classification across ages (Cicchetti and Toth, 1991). Internalizing disorders are characterized by disordered mood or behavior such as withdrawal, anxiety, or depression, while externalizing disorders are characterized by disordered behavior such as aggression, or delinquency, and hyperactivity (Achenbach and McConaughy, 1997; Cicchetti and Toth, 1991). In the following section, the developmental psychopathology perspective on the early origins, course, and detection of psychopathology will be introduced. This framework and salient gaps in related empirical efforts regarding intemalizing and externalizing psychopathology provide the basis for this thesis

Dealing with prognostic uncertainty

How do professional futurists contend with prognostic uncertainty? There is an impressive body of medical-sociological research on how medical staff deals with uncertainty. We have used these insights to study patterns and manners in foresight practice that might not be evident otherwise. The question "Do professional futurists use approaches to deal with uncertainty that resemble those of medical staff?" is addressed by ongoing ethnographic research in Dutch foresight practice. The observed manners are grouped into four analytic categories: the construction of solidity, numeric discourse, communication habits and experience as anchor. In this paper, the construction of solidity and experience as anchor are described in detail. It is further more suggested that "certainification" is a possible upshot of these manners in use

Cultural perspectives on parenting

Education and Child Studie

Using video observation in the family context: the association between camera-related behaviors and parental sensitivity

Research on parental sensitivity often relies on video observation of parent-infant dyads. However, to date, no study has assessed both infants' and parents' interactions with the camera, and how this relates to parental sensitivity levels. This exploratory study micro-coded camera-related behaviors (CRB) by 4-month olds and their mothers and fathers on a 1-s time base, and examined the associations between those behaviors and parental sensitivity in 75 Dutch families. While parents' CRB made up only 0.8% of total interaction time, infants' made up 12%. Multi-level time-series analyses showed that infants' CRB predicted mothers'. Infants' CRB predicted fathers' CRB, and vice versa. Maternal sensitivity was significantly lower when children looked at the camera for over one-third of total interaction time (Cohen's d = 1.26). These findings indicate further research is required to better understand how video observation might threaten ecological validity.NWO464-13-141Education and Child Studie

Sensitive infant caregiving among the rural Gusii in Kenya

Education and Child Studie

The Gendered Family Process Model: An Integrative Framework of Gender in the Family.

This article reviews and integrates research on gender-related biological, cognitive, and social processes that take place in or between family members, resulting in a newly developed gendered family process (GFP) model. The GFP model serves as a guiding framework for research on gender in the family context, calling for the integration of biological, social, and cognitive factors. Biological factors in the model are prenatal, postnatal, and pubertal androgen levels of children and parents, and genetic effects on parent and child gendered behavior. Social factors are family sex composition (i.e., parent sex, sexual orientation, marriage status, sibling sex composition) and parental gender socialization, such as modeling, gender-differentiated parenting, and gender talk. Cognitive factors are implicit and explicit gender-role cognitions of parents and children. Our review and the GFP model confirm that gender is an important organizer of family processes, but also highlight that much is still unclear about the mechanisms underlying gender-related processes within the family context. Therefore, we stress the need for (1) longitudinal studies that take into account the complex bidirectional relationship between parent and child gendered behavior and cognitions, in which within-family comparisons (comparing behavior of parents toward a boy and a girl in the same family) are made instead of between-family comparisons (comparing parenting between all-boy families and all-girl families, or between mixed-gender families and same-gender families), (2) experimental studies on the influence of testosterone on human gender development, (3) studies examining the interplay between biology with gender socialization and gender-role cognitions in humans.Development Psychopathology in context: famil