Measuring Attachment: Developmental Assessment across the Lifespan

499 Pages·2021·5.947 MB·English

by  Everett Waters (editor), Brian E. Vaughn (editor), Harriet Salatas Waters (editor)

MEASURING ATTACHMENT
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MEASURING
ATTACHMENT
Developmental
Assessment across
the Lifespan
EDITED BY
Everett Waters
Brian E. Vaughn
Harriet Salatas Waters
Foreword by L. Alan Sroufe
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About the Editors
Everett Waters, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook Uni-
versity, State University of New York. A graduate of the University of Min-
nesota’s Institute of Child Development, he is a coauthor of Mary Ainsworth’s
classic volume Patterns of Attachment. He is a recipient of the 2009 Bowlby–
Ainsworth Award for contributions to attachment theory and measurement
and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Emotion and Attach-
ment Studies.
Brian E. Vaughn, PhD, holds the Human Sciences Professor of Human Devel-
opment Chair in the Department of Human Development and Family Science
at Auburn University. A graduate of the University of Minnesota’s Institute of
Child Development, he has published widely on attachment and temperament
and the relation of infant attachment to social competence in early childhood.
He is a recipient of the 2011 Bowlby–Ainsworth Award for advancing etho-
logical methods in attachment study.
Harriet Salatas Waters, PhD, is Emerita Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook
University, State University of New York. A graduate of the University of Min-
nesota’s Institute of Child Development, she has made significant contribu-
tions to research on attachment narratives in middle childhood, adolescence,
and adulthood. She is a recipient of the 2021 Bowlby–Ainsworth Award for
contributions to the theory and measurement of attachment representations.
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Contributors
Joseph P. Allen, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Virginia
Lianne Bakkum, MSc, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge University,
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Kristin Bernard, PhD, Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University,
Stony Brook, New York
Annie Bernier, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Montreal,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Elizabeth A. Carlson, PhD, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
David Corcoran, PhD, Colleges Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Judith A. Crowell, MD, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
Robbie Duschinsky, PhD, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge University,
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Christopher R. Facompré, MA, Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University,
Stony Brook, New York
Brooke C. Feeney, PhD, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Carol George, PhD, Department of Psychology, Mills College, Oakland, California
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