A Modified Strange Situation Procedure for Use in Assessing Sibling Relationships and their Attachment to Carers

Farnfield, Steve

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“…Adoption services apply two different methods for assessing children's attachment: behavioural observations and narrative tasks. The first include modified Strange Situation Procedure (Farnfield, 2009;Pace and Zavattini, 2011) and Attachment Q-Set (Verissimo and Salvaterra, 2006) used for infants and pre-school children, while the latter comprises story-stem battery (Kaniuk, Steele and Hodges, 2004;Roman, et al, 2012) and completion task (Barone and Lionetti, 2012;Pace, Zavattini and D'Alessio, 2012) that have been shown to be particularly adept at capturing the inner world of pre-school and school-aged adopted children.…”

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Attachment representations in late-adopted children: the use of narrative in the assessment of disorganisation, mentalising and coherence of mind

Pace

Cavanna

Velotti

et al. 2014

Adoption & Fostering

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Late-adopted children have often suffered a wide range of deprivations in their pre-adoption lives. These early adverse experiences can have a negative effect on children’s attachment representations even after they have been adopted. This study assesses the attachment representations of 61 late-adopted children over the first year of placement, exploring the risk and protective factors of age at placement, length of adoption and gender. The attachment representations were captured using the Manchester Completion Attachment Story Task (MCAST), a doll-play narrative that provides four different attachment classifications – secure, avoidant, ambivalent and disorganised – and three global scorings for disorganisation, mentalising and coherence of mind. The age of adoption was negatively associated with disorganisation, while length of placement was positively correlated with mentalising. Males seemed to be more vulnerable to insecurity and disorganisation than females. The data also suggested that for children placed after the attachment-sensitive phase, the longer the time spent in the adoptive families and being female were protective factors. Moreover, attachment narratives seemed to be a useful tool to explore the inner world of late-adopted children from the first year of placement.

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Attachment representations in late-adopted children: the use of narrative in the assessment of disorganisation, mentalising and coherence of mind

Pace

Cavanna

Velotti

et al. 2014

Adoption & Fostering

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“…Patricia Crittenden desarrolló el CARE-Index (51) bajo la dirección de Mary Ainsworth junto a la asistencia de John Bowlby. Se basa en el modelo dinámico-madurativo que ella desarrolló (Dynamic-Maturation Model-DMM) (52) para poder distinguir si la conducta de apego en niños maltratados correspondía a vínculos de apego desorganizados, o más bien se trataba de niños organizados que respondían a una amenaza extrema (53). Bajo esta mirada, los patrones de apego se entienden como estrategias organizadas para maximizar la autoprotección bajo peligro y amenazas.…”

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Evaluación del vínculo de apego en la infancia y adolescencia

Alvarez-Segura

Lacasa

2022

Rev Psiquiatr Infanto-Juv

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Este artículo presenta los métodos de evaluación del apego gold standard para cada franja de edad, los métodos que permiten obtener importante material clínico, así como los cuestionarios de mejores propiedades psicométricas validados al español y de uso extensivo. Los métodos se dividen en dos grupos: en primer lugar, aquellos que evalúan el apego en forma categorial, es decir en clases excluyentes entre sí, y en segundo lugar los que lo hacen de forma dimensional como grados de un continuum. El primer grupo incluye los basados en la observación directa, que evalúan los ‘modelos de apego” en función de las conductas de apego del niño pequeño y en función de las respuestas verbales de entrevistas o juegos semiestructurados, que evalúan los estados de la mente respecto del apego. El segundo grupo, dimensional, incluye los cuestionarios, que evalúan los ‘estilos de apego’. Dado su extensivo uso se incluye también un método de evaluación de la interacción diádica. Se muestra las fortalezas y debilidades de cada método y los desafíos que la evaluación del apego todavía presenta a ciertas edades.

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“…Siblings can be defined as children who are biologically related or have lived together for a significant period as in the case of a stepsibling. The sibling relationship exists within the family system, thus functioning in connection with the caregiving system and the spousal relationship (Farnfield, 2009), making it problematic to study in isolation.…”

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Exploring the triadic parent–child–sibling relationship: How do mothers’ view of their children impact sibling relationships?

Drzymala

Grey

Fowler

2022

Human Systems: Therapy, Culture and Attachments

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The functioning of the sibling subsystem is often overlooked in research on attachment relationships, despite its both threatening and protective potential. Taking a multi-case approach, this study sought to build theory regarding how the mother–child relationship and the mother’s view of each of her children impact the sibling relationship. Three families were assessed using the Meaning of the Child Interview, a method of analysing parental discourse in a semi-structured interview to understand the parent–child relationship, and a sibling free-play procedure. The study illustrated how in more struggling relationships, the child represented a particular threat or challenge to the mother, and how the child’s accommodation to this influenced the dynamics of the sibling relationship. The sibling may be recruited to care for their sibling to ease demands on their mother, serve as an ally with their mother against their sibling, or siblings may support each other to compensate for what is lacking in the child–parent relationship. This was further influenced by wider systemic challenges to both children and mother, such as parental conflict or settling in a new country.

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A Modified Strange Situation Procedure for Use in Assessing Sibling Relationships and their Attachment to Carers

Cited by 6 publications

References 34 publications

Attachment representations in late-adopted children: the use of narrative in the assessment of disorganisation, mentalising and coherence of mind

Attachment representations in late-adopted children: the use of narrative in the assessment of disorganisation, mentalising and coherence of mind

Evaluación del vínculo de apego en la infancia y adolescencia

Exploring the triadic parent–child–sibling relationship: How do mothers’ view of their children impact sibling relationships?

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