Amanda Bunn

TL;DR: Fearful and Angry-dismissive styles were shown to partially mediate the relationship between childhood adversity and depression or anxiety, and insecure attachment styles predicted both major depression and case anxiety in follow-up.

TL;DR: Moran, Bifulco, Ball, Jacobs, and Benaim as mentioned in this paper examined the relationship of childhood psychological abuse to other adverse childhood experiences and to major depression and suicidal behavior in adult life.

TL;DR: Maternal poor psychosocial functioning needs to be identified as a factor requiring intervention in order to stem escalation of risk across generations in relation to psychossocial models of risk transmission for disorder.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined multi-agency working from the perspective of social workers within an early-intervention family support team and found that the benefits of multi-agent working involved enhanced inter-agency respect and communication, greater understanding of child protection thresholds among partner agencies and fast-track referrals.

TL;DR: Bifulco et al. as discussed by the authors discussed the importance of using evidence-based and standardised assessment tools to maximise effective practice, and discussed the use of the attachment style interview (ASI) in the adoption and fostering assessment process.