This volume provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary and multinational view of attachment theory as it applies to family systems, and family systems theory as it extends attachment theory.
- Explores if and how attachment theory can be truly systemic, and what a systemic attachment theory would entail
- Addresses potential clinical implications and applications of attachment and family systems theories
- Raises cultural challenges to integrative theoretical development
- Challenges developmental and family systems scientists and practitioners to begin an active exchange
1. Introduction: Beatrice L. Wood (Children's Hospital of Buffalo).
2. The Network Perspective: An Integration of Attachment and Family Systems Theories: Kasia Kozlowska (The Children's Hospital at Westmead) and Lesley Hanney (Relationship Australia).
3. Attachment, Social Rank, and Affect Regulation: Speculations on an Ethological Approach to Family Interaction: Leon Sloman (University of Toronto), Leslie Atkinson (University of Toronto), Karen Milligan (University of Toronto) and Giovanni Liotti (Universita Pontificia Salesiana).
4. Family Systems Theory, Attachment Theory, and Culture: Fred Rothbaum (Tufts University), Karen Rosen (Boston College), Tatsuo Ujiie (Nagoya University), Nobuko Uchida (Ochanomizu University).
5. Observing Mother-Child Relationships Across Generations: Boundary Patterns, Attachment, and the Transmission of Caregiving: Molly D. Kretchmar (Gonzaga University) and Deborah B. Jacobvitz (University of Texas at Austin).
6. Relieving Parentified ChlS$
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