Lc Classification Number
Bf723.A75a86 2004
Reviews
"Comprehensive and informative....I am grateful for this text's focus on a developmental phase that has gone overlooked far too long. This text will be useful for more than several years as both a reference and a rich resource for research ideas."--PsycCRITIQUES, "Comprehensive and informative....I am grateful for this text's focus on a developmental phase that has gone overlooked far too long. This text will be useful for more than several years as both a reference and a rich resource for research ideas."--APA PsycCRITIQUES, "This is an impressive and coherent overview of a hitherto neglected age range in attachment research. Description of the dramatically changing developmental processes and social context of middle childhood forms a background for considering issues of attachment assessment and validation, continuity and change, and social and emotional adjustment. The final 'commentary' chapter amplifies these themes, making a substantial contribution to attachment theory as well as empirical research. Setting an agenda for future work in the field, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in attachment. I recommend it for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as research workers."--Joan Stevenson-Hinde, ScD, Sub-Department of Animal Behavior, Cambridge University, UK "This is a book that many developmentalists have been waiting for. The thoughtfully put-together chapters clearly address crucial questions: What facets of middle childhood influence the nature of attachment relationships, and how do they do so? Given this fresh point of view on attachment during middle childhood, how can we measure it with fidelity? The innovative approaches taken by the chapter authors allow for beginning answers to these questions and set up research agendas likely to lead to fruitful investigations in years to come. As such, the volume will be useful to upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and, not least, developmentalists looking to broaden the scope of their thinking and empirical work."--Susanne Denham, PhD, Department of Psychology, George Mason University "Attachment theory, from its earliest days, has contained the notion that attachment characterizes humans 'from the cradle to the grave.' Yet although much is known about attachment not only in infants and young children but also in adolescents and adults, a striking gap exists in our knowledge about the period of middle childhood. This comprehensive volume presents outstanding contributions from those who pioneered the examination of attachment in middle childhood. It provides much-needed theoretical, methodological, and empirical insight into this important but long-neglected developmental period."--Jude Cassidy, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Comprehensive and informative....I am grateful for this text's focus on a developmental phase that has gone overlooked far too long. This text will be useful for more than several years as both a reference and a rich resource for research ideas.
Table of Content
1. Ontogeny of Attachment in Middle Childhood: Conceptualization of Normative Changes, Ofra Mayseless 2. Developmental Contextual Considerations of Parent-Child Attachment in the Later Middle Childhood Years, Rhonda A. Richardson 3. Assessing Attachment in Middle Childhood, Kathryn A. Kerns, Andrew Schlegelmilch, Theresa A. Morgan, and Michelle M. Abraham 4. The Attachment Hierarchy in Middle Childhood: Conceptual and Methodological Issues, Roger Kobak, Natalie Rosenthal, and Asia Serwik 5. Dimensions of Attachment in Middle Childhood, Jennifer L. Yunger, Brooke C. Corby, and David G. Perry 6. Attachment in Infancy and in Early and Late Childhood: A Longitudinal Study, Massimo Ammaniti, Anna Maria Speranza, and Silvia Fedele 7. The Construct of Coherence as an Indicator of Attachment Security in Middle Childhood: The Friends and Family Interview, Howard Steele and Miriam Steele 8. Attachment and Friendship Predictors of Psychosocial Functioning in Middle Childhood and the Mediating Roles of Social Support and Self-Worth, Cathryn Booth-LaForce, Kenneth H. Rubin, Linda Rose-Krasnor, and Kim B. Burgess 9. Quality of Attachment at School Age: Relations between Child Attachment Behavior, Psychosocial Functioning, and School Performance, Ellen Moss, Diane St-Laurent, Karine Dubois-Comtois, and Chantal Cyr 10. Perceived Security of Attachment to Mother and Father in 8- to 11-Year-Olds: Developmental Differences and Relations to Self-Worth and Peer Relationships at School, Karine Verschueren and Alfons Marcoen 11. Examining Relationships between Students and Teachers: A Potential Extension of Attachment Theory?, Laura T. Zionts 12. Relationships Past, Present, and Future: Reflections on Attachment in Middle Childhood, H. Abigail Raikes and Ross A. Thompson
Copyright Date
2005
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Social Work, Developmental / Child, Psychiatry / Child & Adolescent, Developmental / General
Lccn
2004-016929
Dewey Decimal
155.42/48
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Psychology, Medical, Social Science
