Atypical Attachment In Infancy And Early Childhood Among Children At Developmental Risk (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631215921 ISBN 13: 9780631215929

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Synopsis

This book brings together current theory and research about atypical attachments in infants and young children at developmental risk in order to illustrate and understand some of the key issues in cases that do not fit traditional attachment patterns.

About this title

About the Author

Joan I. Vondra received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1986. She is an Associate Professor of Psychology in Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests are in the development of competence among children at social and demographic risk for later school problems and failure.

Douglas Barnett received his Ph.D. from University of Rochester in 1993. He is Associate Professor of Psychology at Wayne State University in Detroit. His research interests include parenting and interventions that promote the development of health attachments and sense of self among children at high risk for socioemotional and scholastic problems.

From the Back Cover

This book brings together current theory and research about atypical attachments in infants and young children at developmental risk in order to illustrate and understand some of the key issues in cases that do not fit traditional attachment patterns. It also illuminates a variety of conceptual issues that warrant more empirical attention in future research on parent-child attachment.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631215921
• ISBN 13: 9780631215929
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236
• Editor: Vondra Joan I.