Showing papers by "Bradley Hospital published in 1995"

The Role of Parenting Sensitivity, Infant Temperament, and Dyadic Interaction in Attachment Theory and Assessment.

Abstract: What are we trying to index when we make assessments of attachment patterns in early life? How do these quality-of-attachment constructs relate to other constructs that are theoretically important to the description and development of attachment relationships? How do parents and children contribute to these developmental processes? What measurement issues are important for the field to consider when evaluating attachment and related constructs? In addressing these questions, we will concurrently examine the nature and assessment of constructs of maternal sensitivity and temperament, both of which have been significant in attachment research and theory. We begin by describing the core constructs of attachment theory, namely, the attachment system and secure-base behavior. We follow by discussing contextual factors that are thought to be crucial in the development of individual differences in attachment, especially maternal sensitivity. We then consider child characteristics, especially temperament, that may contribute to the operation of the attachment system. In this context, we consider both parental supports for secure-base behavior and the ways by which infants "teach" their parents about the specific behaviors that are required to provide a secure base for the individual child. Assessment issues associated with each of these constructs, connections (theoretical and empirical) among them, and some views on directions for future research are each discussed in turn.

Loss and replacement: Intergenerational dynamics related to a two–year–old

Abstract: Un petit garcon de 27 mois fut envoye au service de consulation externe de psychiatrie infantile apres une visite de routine pediatrique effectuee, visite revelant chez l'enfant des periodes d'ebahissement, une regression dans le developpement du langage et un retrait social vis-a-vis de ses parents. L'enfant etait ne une annee apres la mort de son frere, ce dernier etant decede peu apres sa naissance. Une autre mort inattendue s'etait produite dans la famille (generation precedente) lorsque la soeur du pere de l'enfant avait ete tuee dans un accident de voiture durant ses dernieres annees d'adolescence. La grand-mere paternelle, dont le deuil pathologique pour sa fille et son petit-fils infuencait considerablement cette famille, contribuait en realite aux dynamiques de remplacement proeminentes a travers deux generations. Les problemes lies a la perte perinatale, au deuil non resolu et aux dynamiques de remplacement furent essentiels au travail de guidage parental qui fut presente aux parents en tant que composant du traitement de leur fils.