Intervention effects on foster preschoolers' attachment-related behaviors from a randomized trial

Prevention Science

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-170

  Fisher, Philip A ^a   Kim, Hyoun K ^a  

^a OREGON SOCIAL LEARNING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Foster care; Intervention; Preschoolers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOSTER CARE; HUMAN; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNITED STATES;

CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOSTER HOME CARE; HUMANS; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; OREGON;

EID: 34248223735     PISSN: 13894986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11121-007-0066-5     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Ainsworth, M., Blehar, M., Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). Patterns of attachment: A psychological study of the Strange Situation. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
2. Bates, J. E., Maslin, C. A., & Frankel, K. A. (1985). Attachment security, mother-child interaction, and temperament as predictors of behavior-problem ratings at age three years. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 50(1-2), 167-193.
3. Biringen, Z. (2000). Emotional availability: Conceptualization and research findings. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 70, 104-114.
4. Bowlby, J. (1969/1982). Attachment and loss. Vol. 1: Attachment. New York: Basic Books.
5. Carlson, V., Cicchetti, D., Barnett, D., & Braunwald, K. (1989). Disorganized/disoriented attachment relationships in maltreated infants. Developmental Psychology, 25, 525-531.
6. Crittenden, P. M. (1992). Children's strategies for coping with adverse home environments: An interpretation using attachment theory. Child Abuse and Neglect, 16, 329-343.
7. Dozier, M. (2005). Challenges of foster care. Attachment and Human Development, 7, 27-30.
8. Dozier, M., Stovall, K. C., & Albus, K. (1999). A transactional intervention for foster infants' caregivers. In D. Cicchetti & S. L. Toth (Eds.), Rochester symposium on developmental psychopathology: Developmental approaches to prevention and intervention (pp. 195-219). Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
9. Elliott, D. S. (Ed.). (1998). Blueprints for violence prevention. Boulder: Institute of Behavioral Science, Regents of the University of Colorado.
10. Fagot, B. I., & Kavanagh, K. (1990). The prediction of antisocial behavior from avoidant attachment classifications. Child Development, 61, 864-873.
11. Fish, B., & Chapman, B. (2004). Mental health risks to infants and toddlers in foster care. Clinical Social Work Journal, 32, 121-140.
12. Fisher, P. A., Burraston, B., & Pears, K. (2005). The Early Intervention Foster Care Program: Permanent placement outcomes from a randomized trial. Child Maltreatment, 10, 61-71.
13. Fisher, P. A., Ellis, B. H., & Chamberlain, P. (1999). Early Intervention Foster Care: A model for preventing risk in young children who have been maltreated. Children's Services: Social Policy, Research, and Practice, 2, 159-182.
14. Garland, A. F., Landsverk, J. L., Hough, R. L., & Ellis-Macleod, E. (1996). Type of maltreatment as a predictor of mental health service use for children in foster care. Child Abuse and Neglect, 20, 675-688
15. Harden, B. J. (2004). Safety and stability for foster children: A developmental perspective. Future of Children, 14(1), 31-47.
16. Howe, D., & Fearnley, S. (2003). Disorders of attachment in adopted and fostered children: Recognition and treatment. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 8, 369-387.
17. Howes, C., Galinsky, E., & Kontos, S. (1998). Child care caregiver sensitivity and attachment. Social Development, 7, 25-36.
18. Hughes, D. (2004). An attachment-based treatment of maltreated children and young people. Attachment and Human Development, 6, 263-278.
19. Landsverk, J., Garland, A. F., & Leslie, L. K. (2002). Mental health services for children reported to child protective services. In J. E. B. Myers & L. Berliner (Eds.), The APSAC handbook on child maltreatment (2nd ed., pp. 487-507). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
20. Leathers, S. J. (2002). Foster children's behavioral disturbance and detachment from caregivers and community institutions. Children and Youth Services Review, 24, 239-268.
21. Lieberman, A. F. (2003). The treatment of attachment disorder in infancy and early childhood: Reflections from clinical intervention with later-adopted foster care children. Attachment and Human Development, 5, 279-282.
22. Muthén, L. K., & Muthén, B. O. (2004). Mplus User's Guide (3d ed.). Los Angeles, CA: Muthén & Muthén.
23. Nilsen, W. J. (2003). Perceptions of attachment in academia and the child welfare system: The gap between research and reality. Attachment and Human Development, 5, 303-306.
24. Nollan, K. A., & Downs, A. C. (Eds.). (2001). Preparing youth for long-term success: Proceedings from the Casey Family Program National Independent Living Forum. Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America Press.
25. Pearce, J. W., & Pezzot-Pearce, T. D. (2001). Psychotherapeutic approaches to children in foster care: Guidance from attachment theory. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 32, 19-44.
26. Pears, K. C., & Fisher, P. A. (2005a). Developmental, cognitive, and neuropsychological functioning in preschool-aged foster children: Associations with prior maltreatment and placement history. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 26, 112-122.
27. Pears, K. C., & Fisher, P. A. (2005b). Emotion understanding and theory of mind among maltreated children in foster care: Evidence of deficits. Development and Psychopathology, 17, 47-65.
28. Rones, M., & Hoagwood, K. (2000). School-based mental health services: A research review. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 3, 223-241.
29. Rushton, A., Mayes, D., Cherilyn, D., & Quinton, D. (2003). Parenting late-placed children: The development of new relationships and the challenge of behavioural problems. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 8, 389-400.
30. Rutter, M. (1979). Maternal deprivation, 1972-1978: New findings, new concepts, new approaches. Child Development, 50, 283-305.
31. Schofield, G. (2002). The significance of a secure base: A psychosocial model of long-term foster care. Child and Family Social Work, 7, 259-272.
32. Schofield, G., & Beek, M. (2005). Providing a secure base: Parenting children in long-term foster family care. Attachment and Human Development, 7, 3-25.
33. Sheperis, C. J., Renfro-Michel, E. L., & Doggett, R. A. (2003). Inhome treatment of reactive attachment disorder in a therapeutic foster care system: A case example. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 25, 76-88.
34. Sroufe, L. A. (1988). The role of infant-caregiver attachment in development. In J. Belsky & T. Nezworski (Eds.), Clinical implications of attachment (pp. 18-38). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
35. Stoolmiller, M. (1995). Using latent growth curve models to study developmental processes. In J. M. Gottman (Ed.), The analysis of change (pp. 105-138). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
36. Stovall, K. C., & Dozier, M. (1998). Infants in foster care: An attachment theory perspective. Adoption Quarterly, 2(1), 55-88.
37. Stovall-McClough, K. C., & Dozier, M. (2000). The development of attachment in new relationships: Single subject analyses for 10 foster infants. Development and Psychopathology, 12, 133-156.
38. Stovall-McClough, K. C., & Dozier, M. (2004). Forming attachments in foster care: Infant attachment behaviors during the first 2 months of placement. Development and Psychopathology, 16, 253-271.
39. van IJzendoorn, M. H. (1995). Of the way we are: On temperament, attachment, and the transmission gap: A rejoinder of Fox (1995). Psychological Bulletin, 117, 411-415.
40. van IJzendoorn, M. H., Juffer, F., & Duyvesteyn, M. G. C. (1995). Breaking the intergenerational cycle of insecure attachment: A review of the effects of attachment-based interventions on maternal sensitivity and infant security. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 36, 225-248.