Securing attachment: The shifting medicalisation of attachment and attachment disorders

Health, Risk and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 335-344

  Kanieski, Mary Ann ^a  

^a SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Family; Medicalisation; Parenting; Risk; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD REARING; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; HUMAN; MORALITY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77954250396     PISSN: 13698575     EISSN: 14698331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13698571003789682     Document Type: Article

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