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An attachment perspective on psychopathology.

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Research findings showing that attachment insecurity is a major contributor to mental disorders, and that the enhancement of attachment security can facilitate amelioration of psychopathology are reviewed.
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This article is published in World Psychiatry.The article was published on 2012-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 660 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Attachment theory & Psychopathology.

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Attachment--and loss.

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Social determinants of mental health

TL;DR: It is of major importance that action is taken to improve the conditions of everyday life, beginning before birth and progressing into early childhood, older childhood and adolescence, during family building and working ages, and through to older age, to reduce inequalities in physical health and improve health overall.
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The social determinants of mental health

TL;DR: The author describes behaviors, such as poor eating, excessive drinking and abuse of drugs, smoking, and physical inactivity, and social factors that contribute to ill health and early demise.
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The Prevalence of Mental Disorders Among Children and Adolescents in the Child Welfare System: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

TL;DR: High prevalences of mental disorders in the CWS were reported, which highlights the need for the provision of qualified service and the substantial heterogeneity of the findings is indicative of theneed for accurate epidemiological data to effectively guide public policy.
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Lack of theory building and testing impedes progress in the factor and network literature

TL;DR: The applied social science literature using factor and network models continues to grow rapidly as mentioned in this paper, and most work reads like an exercise in model fitting, and falls short of theory building and testing in social science.
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Attachment and Loss

John Bowlby
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Romantic Love Conceptualized as an Attachment Process

TL;DR: It is explored the possibility that romantic love is an attachment process--a biosocial process by which affectional bonds are formed between adult lovers, just as affectional Bonds are formed earlier in life between human infants and their parents.
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Attachment styles among young adults: a test of a four-category model

TL;DR: The proposed model was shown to be applicable to representations of family relations; Ss' attachment styles with peers were correlated with family attachment ratings.
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Attachment--and loss.