The Routledge Handbook of Attachment: Assessment

Steve Farnfield is a Senior Lecturer and established the MSc in Attachment Studies at the University of Roehampton, UK. He is a social worker and play therapist with many years’ experience and a licensed trainer for the Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment Infant CARE-Index, Preschool Assessment of Attachment and Adult Attachment Interview developed by Patricia Crittenden. Paul Holmes is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who also trained as an adult psychotherapist. He worked in community child and adolescent mental health teams for many years, and with specialist services for fostered and adopted children. He has increasingly applied his long-standing interest in attachment theory to his work in providing expert psychiatric opinions to the British courts in child care proceedings.

Preface Farnfield and Holmes. Introduction Farnfield and Holmes. The Assessment of Attachment and Parenting Farnfield. Mother and Infants: screening for maternal relationships at risk with the CARE-Index Hautamäki. Infants and Pre-school Children: Observational assessments of attachment, a review and discussion of clinical applications Teti and Kim. School Children: Narrative Story Stems Farnfield. The School-age Assessment of Attachment (SAA) Kozlowska and Elliott. The Child Attachment Interview (CAI) Shmueli-Goetz. The Working Model of the Child Interview Larrieu, Stevens and Zeanah. The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI): The Main and Goldwyn Model Crowell. The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI): Crittenden’s Dynamic Maturation Model (DMM) Sahhar. Attachment Style Interview (ASI) Bifulco. Assessing Attachment in Families: Beyond the Dyads Dallos. Assessing Mentalizing in Attachment Contexts Lutyen and Fonagy. References. Index.