Foreword, June Sroufe
I. The AAI in Clinical Context
1. Ten Clinical Uses of the Adult Attachment Interview, Howard Steele and Miriam Steele
2. Studying Differences in Language Usage in Recounting Attachment History: An Introduction to the Adult Attachment Interview, Mary Main, Erik Hesse, and Ruth Goldwyn
3. The Distribution of Adult Attachment Representations in Clinical Groups: A Meta-Analytic Search for Patterns of Attachment in 105 AAI Studies, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn and Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
II. Intervention Research with Mothers, Infants, and Toddlers
4. The AAI Anticipates the Outcome of a Relation-Based Early Intervention, Christoph M. Heinicke and Mónica Susana Levine
5. Adult Attachment, Parental Commitment to Early Intervention, and Developmental Outcomes in an African American Sample, Douglas M. Teti, Lauren A. Killeen, Margo Candelaria, Wendy Miller, Christine Reiner Hess, and Melissa O’Connell
6. Attachment-Theory-Informed Intervention and Reflective Functioning in Depressed Mothers, Sheree L. Toth, Fred A. Rogosch, and Dante Cicchetti
III. Parent–Infant Relationships, Adolescents, and Adults in Psychotherapy
7. The AAI as a Clinical Tool, Amanda Jones
8. Integrating the AAI in the Clinical Process of Psychoanalytic Parent–Infant Psychotherapy in a Case of Relational Trauma, Tessa Baradon and Miriam Steele
9. Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder in Adolescence: An AAI Perspective, Tord Ivarsson
10. The AAI in a Clinical Context: Some Experiences and Illustrations, Massimo Ammaniti, Nino Dazzi, and Sergio Muscetta
11. The Reciprocal Impact of Attachment and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy with Borderline Patients, Diana Diamond, Frank E. Yeomans, John F. Clarkin, Kenneth N. Levy, and Otto F. Kernberg
IV. The AAI and Trauma
12. The AAI and Its Contribution to a Therapeutic Intervention Project for Violent, Traumatized, and Suicidal Cases, Sonia Gojman de Millán and Salvador Millán
13. Adult Attachment and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Women with Histories of Childhood Abuse, K. Chase Stovall-McClough, Marylene Cloitre, and Joel F. McClough
14. AAIs in a High-Risk Sample: Stability and Relation to Functioning from Adolescence to 39 Years, Judith A. Crowell and Stuart T. Hauser
15. Exploring the Mind Behind Unresolved Attachment: Lessons from and for Attachment-Based Interventions with Infants and Their Traumatized Mothers, Greg Moran, Heidi Neufeld Bailey, Karin Gleason, Carey Anne DeOliveira, and David R. Pederson
16. Hostile–Helpless States of Mind in the AAI: A Proposed Additional AAI Category with Implications for Identifying Disorganized Infant Attachment in High-Risk Samples, Sharon Melnick, Brent Finger, Sydney Hans, Matthew Patrick, and Karlen Lyons-Ruth
V. The AAI, Foster Care, and Adoptive Placements
17. Forecasting Outcomes in Previously Maltreated Children: The Use of the AAI in a Longitudinal Adoption Study, Miriam Steele, Jill Hodges, Jeanne Kanuik, Howard Steele, Saul Hillman, and Kay Asquith
18. Helping Foster Parents Change: The Role of Parental State of Mind, Johanna Bick and Mary Dozier
Afterword, Deborah Jacobvitz
Howard Steele, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Clinical
Psychology Faculty and Co-Director of the Center for Attachment
Research at The New School for Social Research. Dr. Steele is
senior and founding editor of the journal Attachment and Human
Development and founding and past president of the Society for
Emotion and Attachment Studies. He has published more than 100
journal articles and book chapters, many in collaboration with
Miriam Steele, in the areas of attachment theory and research,
intergenerational patterns of attachment, mourning in response to
trauma and loss, and attachment-based interventions to prevent
child maltreatment and promote secure, organized attachments. With
Miriam Steele and Anne Murphy, Dr. Steele has pioneered the
development of Group Attachment-Based Intervention (GABI©), aimed
at preventing child maltreatment and promoting attachment security.
He is a recipient of the 2017 Bowlby–Ainsworth Award from the
Center for Mental Health Promotion, which cited his contributions
as a scientist, editor, and clinical innovator.
Miriam Steele, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of
the Center for Attachment Research at The New School for Social
Research. She trained as a psychoanalyst at the Anna Freud Centre.
Her work aims to bridge the world of psychoanalytic thinking and
clinical practice with contemporary research in child development.
She initiated the London Parent–Child Project, a major longitudinal
study of intergenerational patterns of attachment that gave rise to
the concept of "reflective functioning." She has published more
than 100 journal articles and book chapters, many in collaboration
with Howard Steele. With Howard Steele and Anne Murphy, Dr. Steele
has pioneered the development of Group Attachment-Based
Intervention (GABI©), aimed at preventing child maltreatment and
promoting attachment security. She is a recipient of the 2017
Bowlby–Ainsworth Award from the Center for Mental Health Promotion,
which cited her innovative longitudinal studies and translational
research on attachment and mental representation.
"Exceptionally coherent and immensely helpful, this book comprehensively reviews how the Adult Attachment Interview can be used to guide clinical work in a range of high-priority contexts. This remarkable instrument, which has more than proved itself in the developmental laboratory, also turns out to be a marvelous and versatile tool in the hands of the creative clinician. An essential book for all those who work with children." "-" Peter Fonagy, Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University College London, UK "'Steele and Steele have brought together a really valuable set of data and ideas concerning the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI), one of the more intriguing and powerful clinical and research tools available in psychology. The book stands out as a serious and ambitious attempt to translate the AAI - and attachment theory more broadly - to multiple clinical contexts. Chapters are written by leading clinicians and scientists, and each is focused and thoughtful, showing, for example, how the AAI informs case conceptualization in individual treatment. This volume deserves to be widely read. It is highly accessible for those just beginning to apply attachment theory to research and practice, but there is also enough that is new to please experienced fans of the AAI.'" - Thomas G. O'Connor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
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