Attachment style in adults who failed to thrive as children: Outcomes of a 20 year follow-up study of factors influencing maintenance or change in attachment style

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 179-195

  Iwaniec, Dorota ^a   Sneddon, Helga ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b Queen's University of Belfast ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035591812     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/31.2.179     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1982) 'Early caregiving and later patterns of attachment', in M. H. Klaus and M. O. Robertson (eds), Birth, Interaction and Attachment, exploring the foundations for modern perinatal care, Johnson and Johnson Baby Products Pediatric Round Table Series, USA.
2. Ainsworth, M. D. S., Blehar, M. C., Waters, E. and Wall, S (eds) (1978) Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation, Hillsdale, NJ, Erlbaum.
3. Barbero, G. (1982) 'Failure-to-thrive', in M. H. Klaus, T. Leger and M. A. Trause (eds), Maternal Attachment and Mothering Disorders, Johnson and Johnson Baby Products Pediatric Round Table Series: USA, pp. 3-5.
4. Bartholemew, K. and Horowitz, L. (1991) 'Attachment styles and young adults: a test of a four category model', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61 pp. 226-44.
5. Benoit, D., Zeanah, C. and Barton, M. L. (1989) 'Maternal attachment disturbances in failure to thrive', Infant Mental Health Journal, 10 pp. 185-93.
6. Bowlby, J. (1988) A Secure Base: Parent-child Attachment and Healthy Human Development, New York, Basic.
7. Bretherton, I. (1990) 'Open communication and internal working models: their role in the development of attachment relationships', in R. A. Thompson (ed.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, vol. 36. Socioemotional Development, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, pp. 57-113.
8. Bullard, D. M., Glaser, H. H., Heagarty, M. C and Privchik, E. C. (1967) 'Failure-to-thrive in the neglected child', American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 37 p. 680.
9. Clarke, A. M. and Clarke, D. B. (1992) 'How modifiable is the human life path?' International Review of Research in Mental Retardation, 18 pp. 173-57.
10. Clarke, A. M. and Clarke, D. B. (1999) The prediction of early development', in D. Messer and F. Jones (eds), Psychology and Social Care, London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley.
11. Cooper, M. L., Shaver, P. R. and Collins, N. L. (1998) 'Attachment styles, emotion regulation and adjustment in adolescence', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(5) pp. 1380-97.
12. Crittenden, P. M. (1987) 'Non-organic failure to thrive: deprivation or distortion?' Infant Mental Health Journal, 8 pp. 51-64.
13. Crockenberg, S. B. (1981) 'Infant irritability, mother responsiveness and social support, mother-infant attachment', Child Development 52 pp. 857-65.
14. Diehl, M., Elnick, A. B., Bourbeau, L. S. and Labouvie-Vief, G. (1998) 'Adult attachment styles: their relations to family context and personality', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(6) pp. 1656-69.
15. Drotar, D. (1991) 'The family context of non-organic failure-to-thrive', American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 6(1) pp. 23-34.
16. Elicker, J., Egeland, M. and Sroufe, L. A. (1992). 'Predicting peer competence and peer relationships', in R. D. Parke and G. W. Ladd (eds). Family-Peer Relationships: Modes of Linkage, Hillsdale, NJ, Erlbaum.
17. Fahlberg, V. (1994) A Child's Journey through Placement, London, BAAF.
18. Feeney, J. A. and Noller, P. (1996) 'Attachment style as a predictor of adult romantic relationships', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58 pp. 281-91.
19. Fonagy, P., Steele, H. and Steele, M. (1991) 'Maternal representations of attachment during pregnancy predict the organisation of infant-mother attachment at one year of age', Child Development, 62 pp. 891-905.
20. Frank, D. A. and Zeisel, S. H. (1988) 'Failure-to-thrive', Paediatric Clinics of North America, 35 pp. 1187-206.
21. Graham, P., Rutter, M. and George, S. (1973) 'Temperamental characteristics as predictors of behaviour disorders in children', American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 43 pp. 328-39.
22. Griffin, D. and Bartholemew, K. (1994a) 'The metaphysics of measurement: the case of adult attachment', Advances in Personal Relationships, 5 pp. 17-52.
23. Griffin, D. and Bartholemew, K. (1994b) 'Models of self and other. Fundamental dimensions underlying measures of adult attachment', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61 pp. 430-45.
24. Grossman, K., Grossman, K. E., Spangler, G., Suess, G and Unzer, L. (1985) 'Growing points in attachment theory and research', in I. Bretherton and E. Waters (eds.) Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Serial No. 209, 50, 3-35 monograph.
25. Hampton, D. (1996) 'Resolving the feeding difficulties associated with nonorganic failure to thrive', Child: Care, Health and Development, 22(4) pp. 273-84.
26. Hanks, H. and Hobbs, C. (1993) 'Failure-to-thrive: a model for treatment', Baillière's Clinical Paediatrics, 1(1) pp. 101-19.
27. Hazan, C. and Shaver, P. R. (1987) 'Romantic love conceptualised as an attachment process', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52 pp. 511-24.
28. Hazan, C. and Shaver, P. R. (1994) 'Attachment as an organisational framework for research on close relationships', Psychological Inquiry, 5 pp. 1-22.
29. Herbert, M. and Iwaniec, D. I. (1979) 'Managing children's behaviour problems', Social Work Today, 10(33) pp. 12-14.
30. Hinde, R. A. (1988) 'Continuities and discontinuities. Conceptual issues and methodological considerations', in M. Rutter (ed.) Studies of Psychological Risks: the Power of Longitudinal Data, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
31. Howe, D. (1995) Attachment Theory for Social Work Practice, London, Macmillan Press.
32. Hufton, I. W. and Oates, R. K. (1977) 'Non-organic failure to thrive: a long-term follow-up', Pediatrics, 59(1) pp. 73-7.
33. Iwaniec, D. (1983) 'Social and Psychological Factors to the Aetiology and Management of Children who Fail to Thrive', unpublished PhD thesis, Leicester University.
34. Iwaniec, D. (1991) 'Treatment of children who fail to grow in the light of the new Children Act', Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatric Newsletter, 13(3) pp. 21-7.
35. Iwaniec, D. (1995) The Emotionally Abused and Neglected Child: Identification, Assessment and Intervention, Chichester, John Wiley & Son.
36. Iwaniec, D. (1997) 'Evaluating parent training for emotionally-abusive and neglectful parents; comparing individual versus individual and group intervention', Research on Social Work Practice, 7(3) pp. 329-49.
37. Iwaniec, D., Herbert, M. and McNeish, A. S. (1985a) 'Social work with failure-to-thrive children and their families, Part I: Psychosocial factors', British Journal of Social Work, 15 pp. 243-59.
38. Iwaniec, D., Herbert, M. and McNeish, A. S. (1985b) 'Social work with failure-to-thrive children and their families, Part II: Behavioural social work intervention', British Journal of Social Work, 15 pp. 375-89.
39. Krieger, I. and Sargant, D. A. (1967) 'A postural sign in the sensory deprivation syndrome in infants', Journal of Pediatrics, 70 pp. 332-7.
40. Lamb, M. E., Thompson, R. A., Gardner, W., Charnor, E. L. and Estes, D. (1984) 'Security of infantile attachment as assessed in "the strong situation". Its study and biological interpretation', Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 7 pp. 127-47.
41. Main, M. (1996) 'Introduction to the special section on attachment and psychopathology: 2. Overview of the field of attachment', Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64(2) pp. 237-43.
42. Main, M. and Cassidy, J. (1988) 'Categories of response to reunion with the parent at age six: predicted from infant attachment classifications and stable over a one-month period', Development Psychology, 24 pp. 415-26.
43. Main, M. and Solomon, J. (1990) 'Procedures of identifying as disorganised/disoriented during the Ainsworth Strange Situation', in M. Greenberg, D. Cicchetti and E. M. Cummings (eds), Attachment in the Pre-School Years: Theory, Research and Intervention, Chicago, University of Chicago, pp. 121-60.
44. Main, M., Kaplan, N. and Cassidy, J. (1985) 'Security in infancy, childhood and adulthood: a move to a level of representation', In I. Bretherton and E. Waters (eds), Growing Points of Attachment theory and Research, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 50(1-2) No. 209.
45. Mathisen, B., Skuse, D., Wolke, D. and Reilly, S. (1989) 'Oral-motor dysfunction and failure to thrive among inner-city infants', Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 31 pp. 293-302.
46. Melhuish, E. C. (1993) 'Behaviour measures: a measure of love? An overview of the assessment of attachment', ACPP Review and Newsletter, 15(6) pp. 269-75.
47. Messer, D. J. (1999) 'Communication, bonding, attachment and separation', in D. Messer and F. Jones (eds), Psychology and Social Care, London and Philadelphia, Jessica Kingsley.
48. Mikulincer, M. (1997) 'Adult attachment style and information processing: Individual differences in curiosity and cognitive closure', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72(5) pp. 1217-30.
49. Miyake, K., Chen, S. J. and Campos, J. J. (1985) 'Infant temperament, mother's mode of interaction, and attachment in Japan', an interim report in I. Bretherton and E. Water (eds), Growing Pains of Attachment Theory and Research, Monograph of the Society for Research and Child Development, 50(1-2) No. 209.
50. Oates, R. K., Peacock, A. and Forest, D. (1984) 'Long-term effects of non-organic failure-to-thrive', Paediatrics, 75 pp. 36-40.
51. Ognibene, T. C. and Collins, N. L. (1998) 'Adult attachment styles, perceived social support and coping strategies', Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 15(3) pp. 323-45.
52. Powell, D. F. and Low, J. (1983) 'Behaviour in nonorganic failure to thrive', Journal of Developmental and Behavioural Pediatrics, 14 pp. 26-33.
53. Raynor, P. and Rudolf, M. C. J. (1996) 'What do we know about children who fail-to-thrive?' Child Care, Health and Development, 22(4) pp. 241-50.
54. Rosenstein, D. S. and Horowitz, H. A. (1996) 'Adolescent attachment and psychopathology', Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64(2) pp. 244-53.
55. Rutter, M. (1989) 'Pathways from childhood to adult life', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 126 pp. 520-33.
56. Rutter, M. (1995) 'Clinical implications of attachment concepts: Retrospect and prospect', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 36(4) pp. 549-71.
57. Sable, P. (1997) 'Disorders of adult attachment', Psychotherapy, 34(3) pp. 286-96.
58. Schaffer, H. R. and Emerson, P. E. (1964) 'The development of social attachments in infancy', Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 29(3) Serial No. 94.
59. Skuse, D. (1989) 'Emotional abuse and delay in growth', in R. Meadow (ed.), AMB of Child Abuse, London, British Medical Association.
60. Skuse, D. (1993) 'Identification and management of problem eaters', Archives of Disease in Childhood, 69 pp. 604-08.
61. Spinner, M. R. and Siegel, L. (1987) 'Nonorganic failure to thrive', Journal of Preventive Psychiatry, 3(3) pp. 279-97.
62. Sroufe, L. A. (1983) 'Individual papers of adaptation from infancy to pre-school', in M. Perlmutter (ed.), Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology, Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum.
63. Sroufe, L. A. and Fleeson, J. (1986) 'Attachment and the construction of relationships', in W. Hartup and Z. Rubin (eds), Relationships and Development, Hillsdale, NJ, Erlbaum Associates, pp. 51-71.
64. Stein, H., Jacobs, N. J., Ferguson, K. S., Allen, J. G. and Fonagy, P. (1998) 'What do adult attachment scales measure?' Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 62 (1): 33-82.
65. Stern, D. N. (1985) The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology, New York, Basic Books.
66. Sutton, C. (1994) Social Work, Community Work and Psychology, Leicester, The British Psychological Society.
67. Thomas, A., Chess, S. and Birch, H. G. (1977) Temperament and Behaviour Disorders in Children, New York, New York University Press.
68. Tizard, B. and Hodges, J. (1978) 'The effect of early institutional rearing on the development of eight year old children', Journal of Child Psychology, Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 19 pp. 99-118.
69. Ward, M. J., Vaughan, B. E. and Robb, M. R. (1992) 'Social-emotional adaptation and infant-mother attachment in siblings. Role of the mother in cross-sibling consistancy', Child Development, 59 pp. 643-51.
70. Wartner, U. G., Grossman, K., Fremmer-Bombik, E. and Suess, G. (1994) 'Attachment patterns in South Germany at age 6', Child Development, 65 pp. 1014-27.