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Guide to assessing attachment in children and young people
Author: Dr Steve Farnfield, Roehampton University
Publication Date: 11 February 2009
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Introduction
What is attachment?
Assessing attachment
Get the history – assess the danger from the child’s perspective
Natural observation
Infants (0-15 months)
CARE-Index (Crittenden 2007; 1981)
Lausanne trilogue play (LTP)
Toddlers and pre-school children (16-60 months)
The separation anxiety test and related measures
The Marschak Interaction Method (MIM) (Marschak 1960)
School aged children
Picture cards and doll play
Adolescence and early adulthood
Final Comment
References
Introduction
Assessing attachment is actually very difficult and even with extensive training and independent reliability checks skilled assessors still make mistakes around 10 to 20 per cent of the time.
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