The Validity of the Massie-Campbell Attachment During Stress Scale (ADS)

Cárcamo, Rodrigo; IJzendoorn, Marinus H. van; Vermeer, Harriet J.; Veer, René van der

doi:10.1007/s10826-013-9728-z

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“…Adequate levels of convergent validity have been reported regarding the content and construct of the instrument (Cárcamo, van IJzendoorn, Vermeer, & van der Deer, ). This guideline is currently used as a standard measurement to assess attachment (when the infants are aged 4 and 12 months) in a National Childhood Protection Program called “Chile Crece Contigo” (“Chile Grows With You”) (Lecannelier, Hoffmann, & Frinco, ; Lecannelier & Zamora, ) as well as in various studies on high‐risk populations (Pereira, ) and effectiveness studies of early intervention models (Lecannelier et al., ).…”

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Effects of an Intervention to Promote Socioemotional Development in Terms of Attachment Security: A Study in Early Institutionalization in Chile

Lecannelier

Silva

Hoffmann

et al. 2014

Infant Mental Health Journal

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The Chilean government commissioned a quasi-experimental study with a pre-/postintervention design that had two general aims: (a) to assess infants' psychoaffective developmental levels (pre-intervention phase) and (b) to evaluate whether an intervention based on the promotion of socioemotional development modifies the infant's psychoaffective development. Sixty-two institutionalized infants and their alternative caregivers were evaluated at a pre-intervention stage. An intervention then took place, with the caregivers trained according to an "attachment sensitivity manual." Results showed normal ranges of psychomotor development (64% normal, 9% delayed) and a very high frequency of attachment insecurity, as compared to the normative population (53%).The intervention significantly improved social orientation and object orientation as well as activity and reactivity levels. We conclude that although institutionalized infants in Chile do not exhibit high levels of atypical attachment, socioemotional deterioration may lead to vulnerability in present and future development. Finally, the scope of this study affected public policies regarding children, initiating a change to a foster family system and a variety of modifications in the strategies for adopting institutionalized infants.

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Effects of an Intervention to Promote Socioemotional Development in Terms of Attachment Security: A Study in Early Institutionalization in Chile

Lecannelier

Silva

Hoffmann

et al. 2014

Infant Mental Health Journal

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“…The most productive way to interpret ADS ratings is to use the attachment indicators as guides to the adequacy of interaction in a given mother–infant pair. A recent validation study conducted by Cárcamo, van IJzendoorn, Vermeer, and Van der Veer () described a strategy whereby each attachment behavior was given the requisite score of 1 through 5: If 50% of scores were coded as 1 or 2, the attachment was classified as insecure avoidant (A); if more than 50% of scores were coded as 3 or 4, then the behavior was classified as securely attached (B); if 50% of the scores were coded as 5, the behavior was classified as insecure resistant (C).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Training is self‐guided. The 50‐page manual and score sheets can be obtained from http://www.adsscale.com/ Time required for scoring the ADS Scale varies depending on the length of observances (Cárcamo et al., ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To date, the ADS Scale has seldom been used in research, but has been widely utilized in pediatric clinical settings (Cárcamo et al., ). As part of a Chilean attachment assessment and intervention program, the ADS Scale has been used on a large scale with approximately 200,000 dyads to identify problematic attachment behaviors during regular infant checkups at 4 and 12 months (Causadias, Sroufe, & Herreros, ).…”

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“…Most recently, Cárcamo et al. () examined its rigor and applicability through ascertaining its convergent and concurrent validity in comparison with the SSP and Ainsworth's () Maternal Sensitivity Scales (see Table ). These authors noted that while the ADS Scale was suitable for distinguishing between the securely and insecurely attached dyads as well as between sensitive and less sensitive mothers, the measure failed to identify resistantly attached children.…”

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Attachment and Caregiver–infant Interaction: A Review of Observational‐assessment Tools

Tryphonopoulos

Letourneau

DiTommaso

2014

Infant Mental Health Journal

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The relationship between maternal-infant interaction and attachment quality to infant developmental outcomes has long been established. As children mature, problems stemming from troubled caregiver-infant relations may result in referral to mental health or child protection services. The accurate and appropriate assessment of attachment is critical for early recognition of problematic relations and for informing suitable treatment modalities. Evaluating the quality of attachment poses a challenge for researchers and clinicians seeking to explore the association between infant development and the quality of early caregiving experiences. Although providing a definitive answer to the question of which of these assessment procedures is the single universal standard for measuring attachment quantity is beyond the scope of this article, readers will be provided with a description and comparison of strengths and limitations of the most commonly used measures of attachment, including the Strange Situation Procedure (M.D.S. Ainsworth, M.C. Blehar, E. Waters, & S. Wall, 1978), Attachment Q-Sort (E. Waters & K.E. Deane, 1985), Toddler Attachment Sort (TAS-45; J. Kirkland, D. Bimler, A. Drawneek, M. McKim, & A. Scholmerich, 2004), CARE-Index (P. Crittenden, 1985), Atypical Maternal Behavior Instrument for Assessment and Classification (AMBIANCE; E. Bronfman, E. Parsons, & K. Lyons-Ruth, 1999), Massie-Campbell Scale of Mother-Infant Attachment Indicators During Stress Scale (Attachment During Stress Scale; H.N. Massie & B.K. Campbell, 1983), and the Risky Situation Procedure (D. Paquette & M. Bigras, 2010).

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