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Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial
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Young children who have experienced early adversity are at risk for developing disorganized attachments. The efficacy of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC), an intervention targeting nurturing care among parents identified as being at risk for neglecting their young children, was evaluated through a randomized clinical trial. Attachment quality was assessed in the Strange Situation for 120 children between 11.7 and 31.9 months of age (M = 19.1, SD = 5.5). Children in the ABC intervention showed significantly lower rates of disorganized attachment (32%) and higher rates of secure attachment (52%) relative to the control intervention (57% and 33%, respectively). These results support the efficacy of the ABC intervention in enhancing attachment quality among parents at high risk for maltreatment.
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“Children in the ABC intervention showed significantly lower rates of disorganized attachment (32%) and higher rates of secure attachment (52%) relative to the control intervention (57% and 33%, respectively).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Abstract
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“However, we conducted analyses with children who are between the ages of 12 and 24 months and found that our results held with that smaller sample.”
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“Children in the ABC intervention showed significantly lower rates of disorganized attachment (32%) and higher rates of secure attachment (52%) relative to the control intervention (57% and 33%, respectively).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Abstract
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“Second, all of the mothers in the current study had been previously identified as being at-risk of maltreating their children.”
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“Carlson found that disorganized attachment at 18 months of age predicted dissociative symptoms during middle school, high school, and early adulthood, based on teacher-report, self-report, and clinical interviews.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Attachment disorganization
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- Not checked yetcites Carlson, 1998 source
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“Lyons-Ruth et al. (1997) found that disorganized attachment at 18 months predicted teacher-reported externalizing symptoms at age 7 (r = .31).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Attachment disorganization
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- Not checked yetcites Lyons-Ruth et al. (1997) source
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“Young children who have experienced early adversity are at risk for developing disorganized attachments.”
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“Children who experience early adversity, such as neglect, abuse, exposure to domestic violence, and separations from caregivers, are at increased risk for developing disorganized attachments (Carlson, 1998; Lyons-Ruth, Connell, Zoll, & Stahl, 1987; Stovall-McClough & Dozier, 2004; van IJzendoorn, Schuengel, & Bakermans-Kranenburg, 1999).”
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“The overall effect size of these interventions on disorganized attachment was non-significant (d = .05), although several factors were associated with effect size.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Interventions targeting disorganized attachment
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- Not checked yetcites Bakermans-Kranenburg, van IJzendoorn, & Juffer (2005) source
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“Parents’ history of unresolved loss or trauma is predictive of children’s disorganized attachment (Lyons-Ruth & Jabovitz, 2008; Lyons-Ruth, Repacholi, McLeod, & Silva, 1991; Main & Hesse, 1990; van Ijzendoorn, 1995).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Attachment disorganization
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- Not checked yetcites Lyons-Ruth & Jabovitz, 2008
- Not checked yetcites Lyons-Ruth, Repacholi, McLeod, & Silva, 1991 source
- Not checked yetcites Main & Hesse, 1990
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“These children’s caregivers need to provide nurturing, sensitive care, indeed even therapeutic care, if such children are to develop organized attachments (Dozier, Stovall, Albus, & Bates, 2001).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites Dozier, Stovall, Albus, & Bates, 2001 source
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“Taken together, these efforts to change disorganized attachment among young vulnerable children have been exciting, but the results have not been consistently compelling.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Interventions targeting disorganized attachment
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“In a recent meta-analysis, Fearon and colleagues (2010) found that disorganized attachment placed children at elevated risk for externalizing problems (d = .34), relative to children with insecure-avoidant and insecure-resistant classifications (Fearon, Bakermans-Kranenburg, van IJzendoorn, Lapsley, & Roisman, 2010).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Attachment disorganization
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- Not checked yetcites Fearon, Bakermans-Kranenburg, van IJzendoorn, Lapsley, & Roisman, 2010 source
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“Disorganized attachment is particularly important because it is associated with problematic long-term outcomes.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Attachment disorganization
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“Most notably, children who have been maltreated by their parents show particularly high rates of disorganized attachment (Barnett, Ganiban, & Cicchetti, 1999; Carlson, Cicchetti, Barnett, & Braunwald, 1989; Cicchetti & Barnett, 1991; Cyr, Euser, Bakermans-Kranenburg, & van IJzendoorn, 2010; Lyons-Ruth et al., 1987; van IJzendoorn et al., 1999).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Attachment disorganization
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“Interventions that are conducted prenatally, and thus without the child present, are found to be less effective than those conducted after the birth of children (Bakermans-Kranenburg et al., 2005).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up Intervention
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- Not checked yetcites Bakermans-Kranenburg et al., 2005 source
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“Second, our use of the Strange Situation Procedure to assess attachment beyond 24 months extends beyond the range for which the procedure has been validated.”
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“The Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up intervention was targeted, and relatively short-term, consistent with characteristics of interventions identified as most effective in previous meta-analyses (Bakermans-Kranenburg et al., 2003).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites Bakermans-Kranenburg et al., 2003
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“In conclusion, the results from the current study suggest that the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up intervention is effective in promoting organized and secure attachment outcomes among a group of young children who are at risk for neglect.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Discussion > Limitations and Conclusion
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- Rests on an assumption: The DEF control intervention does not affect children's attachment outcomes.
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“with frightening parental behavior associated with disorganized attachment (Schuengel et al., 1999).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Discussion > Potential Mediators of Intervention Effects
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- Not checked yetcites Schuengel et al., 1999 source
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“These results support the efficacy of the ABC intervention in enhancing attachment quality among parents at high risk for maltreatment.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Abstract
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“First, although all families were identified as being at risk for maltreatment, we did not have access to Child Protective Services records for the families. Therefore, we were not able to examine the relation of differing maltreatment histories to treatment effectiveness.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Discussion > Limitations and Conclusion
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“Third, the intervention’s focus was on changing parenting behaviors rather than parenting internal representations, suggested as important by Bakermans-Kranenburg et al. (2005).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up Intervention
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- Not checked yetcites Bakermans-Kranenburg et al. (2005) source
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“Therefore, the results of this study seem generalizable to mothers and young children who receive child protective services and are at risk for abuse and neglect.”
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“Therefore, it can be ensured that the differences of children’s attachment outcomes were causally related to the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up Intervention.”
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“These findings are exciting given the nature of the sample (i.e., high risk for maltreatment and neglect), and given the mixed results of previous studies that have assessed disorganized attachment as an outcome of intervention (Bakermans-Kranenburg et al., 2005).”
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- Not checked yetcites Bakermans-Kranenburg et al., 2005 source
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“At the time children participated in the Strange Situation, they were between the ages of 11.7 and 31.9 months of age (M = 19.1, SD = 5.5).”
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“Relative to children in the control intervention group, children in the ABC intervention group showed lower rates of disorganized attachments, χ2 (1,120) = 7.60, p < .01.”
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“As can be seen in Table 2, 32% of the ABC children had disorganized attachments, whereas 57% of the DEF children had disorganized attachments.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Results > Primary results
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“These results remained significant when excluding children who were older than 24 months at the time of the Strange Situation, for attachment disorganization, χ2 (1,95) = 5.06, p < .05 (effect size: d = .47), but not for attachment security, χ2 (1,95) = 1.85, p > .05 (effect size: d = .28).”
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“Similarly, children in the ABC intervention group showed significantly higher rates of secure attachment, relative to children in the DEF intervention group, χ2 (1,120) = 4.13, p < .05.”
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“Whereas 52% of children in the ABC intervention group had secure attachments, only 33% of children in the DEF intervention group had secure attachments.”
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“More global parental problems, including parental depression, substance use, and inter-parental discord are also associated with increased incidence of child disorganized attachment (Lyons-Ruth et al., 1991; O’Connor, Sigman, & Brill, 1987; Owen & Cox, 1997; Teti, Messinger, Glefland, & Isabella, 1995); however, these findings are mixed and less substantial than associations with attachment state”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Attachment disorganization
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“Following treatment, 54% of high-risk infants had disorganized attachments, compared with 70% of the untreated, high-risk infants and 34% of the untreated, community infants. The effect size of this difference in disorganized attachment between high-risk children who received intervention services versus those that did not was small (d = .30) (Bakermans-Kranenburg et al., 2005).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Interventions targeting disorganized attachment
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“Regarding sample characteristics, effects were larger for interventions for families with infants older than 6 months of age and for families in which the risk resided primarily in the child, rather than the parent.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Interventions targeting disorganized attachment
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- Not checked yetcites Bakermans-Kranenburg et al., 2005 source
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“Attachment quality was evaluated when children were 13 months, but no significant differences were found for attachment security or attachment organization. Percent of children with disorganized attachment was in the unexpected direction, with 40%, 30%, and 20% in the first intervention group (VIPP), second intervention group (VIPP-R), and control group, respectively (VIPP effect size: d = −.41;”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Interventions targeting disorganized attachment
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- Not checked yetcites Bakermans-Kranenburg and colleagues (1998)
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“Of 31 children in the intervention group assessed in the Strange Situation, 13% were classified as disorganized, whereas 27% of the 22 children in the control group were classified as disorganized (effect size: d = .36).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Interventions targeting disorganized attachment
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- Not checked yetcites Heinicke and colleagues (1999)
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“First, the intervention was designed to be relatively brief, completed in 10 sessions, as suggested by a meta-analysis conducted by Bakermans-Kranenburg, van IJzendoorn, and Juffer (2003), which found that attachment-based interventions with a small to moderate number of sessions were more effective than longer interventions (> 16 sessions).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up Intervention
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- Not checked yetcites Bakermans-Kranenburg, van IJzendoorn, and Juffer (2003)
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“However, infants with disorganized attachments are not buffered from stress in such ways; rather, they show stress reactive responses in the form of elevated cortisol (Bernard & Dozier, in press; Hertsgaard, Gunnar, Farrell, Erickson, & Nachmias, 1995; Spangler & Grossman, 1993) or sympathetic nervous system reactivity (Oosterman, De Schipper, Fisher, Dozier, & Schuengel, 2010).”
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“Luijk and colleagues (2010) found that children with disorganized attachments did not show heightened cortisol reactivity, but did show more blunted diurnal patterns of cortisol production relative to children with organized attachment.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Attachment disorganization
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- Not checked yetcites Bernard & Dozier, in press
- Not checked yetcites Hertsgaard, Gunnar, Farrell, Erickson, & Nachmias, 1995
- Not checked yetcites Oosterman, De Schipper, Fisher, Dozier, & Schuengel, 2010
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“Treatment manualization is considered an important factor in treatment integrity and treatment effectiveness, both in general (Weisz, Jensen-Doss, & Hawley, 2006) and in interventions targeting disorganized attachment (Bakermans-Kranenburg et al., 2005).”
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“There were no significant effects on attachment security or attachment organization. Of the children in the intervention group, 41% were classified as disorganized, compared with 19% in the control group, resulting in an effect in the unexpected direction (d = −.49).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Interventions targeting disorganized attachment
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- Not checked yetcites Egeland & Erickson (1993)
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“Although parental insensitivity alone is predictive of insecure, but organized, attachment patterns (De Wolff & van IJzendoorn, 1997), insensitivity alone is not strongly associated with disorganized attachment (van IJzendoorn et al., 1999).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Attachment disorganization
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- Not checked yetcites De Wolff & van IJzendoorn, 1997
- Not checked yetcites van IJzendoorn et al., 1999 source
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“According to Main and Hesse (1990), children develop disorganized attachments as the result of being frightened of the person to whom they look for reassurance.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Attachment disorganization
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- Not checked yetcites Main & Hesse, 1990
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“The intervention appeared effective in both reducing rates of disorganized attachment (change from disorganized attachment at pre-test to organized attachment at post-test) and protecting children from developing disorganized attachments (preventing change from organized attachment at pre-test to disorganized attachment at post-test).”
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“At post-test, 20 percent of children in the intervention group were classified as disorganized, compared with 56.3 percent of children in the control group (effect size: d = .79).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Interventions targeting disorganized attachment
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- Not checked yetcites Moss and colleagues (in press)
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“Both intervention groups (i.e., infant-parent psychotherapy and psychoeducational parenting intervention) showed significantly lower rates of disorganized attachment at post-intervention assessments, compared to community standard (treatment as usual) and normative (non-maltreating) control groups, with medium to large effect sizes (d = .84 – 1.13).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Interventions targeting disorganized attachment
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- Not checked yetcites Cicchetti, Rogosch, and Toth (2006) source
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“Given that frightening parental behavior has been identified as a predictor of disorganized attachment (Schuengel et al, 1999), it seemed particularly important to help parents not engage in behavior that might be threatening.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Procedure
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“Two coders, blind to other study information, classified the videos.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Measures
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“This approach for grouping children classified as disorganized and children classified as “cannot classify” has been used previously (e.g., Behrens, Hesse, & Main, 2007).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Results > Preliminary results
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- Not checked yetcites Behrens, Hesse, & Main, 2007
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“The primary coder (Initials omitted for blind review) had attended the 2-week course at the University of Minnesota and passed the reliability test (reaching at least 80% agreement with expert coders).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Measures
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“After consenting, parents were randomly assigned to receive either the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up Intervention or a control intervention (Developmental Education for Families: DEF).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Procedure
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“The Developmental Education for Families sessions was of the same duration (10 hour-long sessions) and frequency (weekly) as the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up intervention.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Procedure
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“To ensure that any results were not attributable to our inclusion of older children in this study, we conducted analyses excluding children older than 24 months of age, in addition to analyses that included all children.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Measures
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“The interventions were of the same duration and frequency.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Procedure
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“Attachment classifications were unrelated to child and parent demographic variables.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Results > Preliminary results
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“The Strange Situation has been validated for use with children between 12 and 18 months of age (Ainsworth et al., 1978), with some investigations extending this age to 24 months (e.g., Dozier et al., 2001; Steele, Murphy, & Steele, 2010; see Cyr et al., 2010).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Discussion > Limitations and Conclusion
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“However, we did not have access to families’ records, and we were therefore limited to reports of conditions by the referring agency. Additionally, these reports were incomplete and subject to differential caseworker reporting habits.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Participants
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“Importantly, these characteristics will support the feasibility of dissemination into the community.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Discussion
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“Children randomly assigned to the ABC intervention did not differ significantly from children assigned to the DEF intervention with regard to age at enrollment, age at Strange Situation, gender, or minority status. Similarly, there were no group differences in parent age, parent education, or parent minority status.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Results > Preliminary results
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“New skills were expected to generalize better if conditions more closely approximated their typical conditions (Bouton, Woods, Moody, Sunsay, & Garcia-Gutierrez, 2006).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up Intervention
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- Not checked yetcites Bouton, Woods, Moody, Sunsay, & Garcia-Gutierrez, 2006
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“First, the effectiveness of the intervention was tested through a randomized trial.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Discussion
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“Components that involve parental sensitivity to child cues were excluded in our version of the intervention so as to keep the interventions distinct.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Procedure
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“Finally, we did not examine possible effects of the comparison intervention: Developmental Education for Families (DEF).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Discussion > Limitations and Conclusion
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“Third, we used the Strange Situation Procedure to measure children’s attachment classifications in this study.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Discussion
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“The two coders agreed on 85% of the videos for 4-way classifications (k = .74), 92% of secure/insecure classifications, and 87% for organized/disorganized classifications (k = .76).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Measures
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“Children that experience adversity early in life may fail to signal their needs clearly (Stovall & Dozier, 2000; Stovall-McClough & Dozier, 2004), making it difficult for parents to respond sensitively.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Procedure
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Stovall & Dozier, 2000
- Not checked yetcites Stovall-McClough & Dozier, 2004
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“Disagreements were resolved by conference. Alan Sroufe was called in to conference on those that were especially difficult.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Measures
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“Although the intervention is manualized, specific activities take into account child’s developmental level.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Procedure
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“Of the children included in this study, 60 were randomly assigned to receive the ABC intervention, and 60 were randomly assigned to receive the control (DEF) intervention.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Results > Preliminary results
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“All sessions were videotaped, allowing assessments of fidelity to the manual.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Procedure
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“Often, parents struggle to provide sensitive care when they did not experience sensitive care themselves (Kovan, Chun, & Sroufe, 2009; van IJzendoorn, 1995).”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Procedure
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Kovan, Chun, & Sroufe, 2009
- Not checked yetcites van IJzendoorn, 1995 source
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“The second of the two coders was Elizabeth Carlson, an expert in coding Strange Situations and, along with Alan Sroufe, the coding trainer for Strange Situations. Elizabeth Carlson coded 34% of the videos.”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Measures
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“For example, maltreating parents and parents who have experienced unresolved trauma often behave in frightening ways with their children (Lyons-Ruth et al., 2005; Main & Hesse, 1990)”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Discussion > Potential Mediators of Intervention Effects
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Lyons-Ruth et al., 2005 source
- Not checked yetcites Main & Hesse, 1990
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Caregivers of children with early adversity frequently do not have the means to give sensitive care, and in the absence of treatment they tend to keep exposing the child to harmful conditions instead of therapeutic parenting.
“Parents whose children have experienced early adversity, however, are unlikely to have the resources to provide such care; without intervention, they often continue to expose children to adverse conditions rather than provide them with “therapeutic” parenting.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The Strange Situation is the gold standard method for assessing children's attachment.
“Given the strong psychometric properties and observational structure of the assessment, the Strange Situation Procedure has been considered the “gold standard” method for assessing children’s attachment.”
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The DEF control intervention does not affect children's attachment outcomes.
“Finally, we did not examine possible effects of the comparison intervention: Developmental Education for Families (DEF).”
The paper relies on this without support.
Strange Situation classifications are valid for children older than 24 months.
“Second, our use of the Strange Situation Procedure to assess attachment beyond 24 months extends beyond the range for which the procedure has been validated.”
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Making parents aware of their automatic responses helps them recognize and override insensitive, controlling, or frightening behaviors.
“By becoming aware of their automatic ways of responding to their children (“voices from the past”), parents became better able to recognize when they responded in insensitive, controlling, and/or frightening ways.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Frequent positive in-the-moment feedback reinforces skills, supports parents, and enhances the parent-trainer relationship.
“This frequent and positive “in the moment” feedback was expected to reinforce skills and ideas being discussed, support the parents’ efforts, and enhance the relationship between the parent and parent-trainer.”
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Several previous intervention attempts have been ineffective or long-term.
“This is particularly exciting given that several previous intervention attempts have either been ineffective or long-term.”
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Previous research has highlighted effective components of early intervention programs.
“Building on previous research highlighting effective components of early intervention programs, the current program was short-term and focused on specific behavioral targets.”
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The sample of mothers is representative of mothers and young children who receive child protective services and are at risk for abuse and neglect.
“Second, all of the mothers in the current study had been previously identified as being at-risk of maltreating their children. Therefore, the results of this study seem generalizable to mothers and young children who receive child protective services and are at risk for abuse and neglect.”
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“Results indicated that children in the ABC treatment had lower rates of disorganized attachment (d = .52) and higher rates of secure attachment (d = .38) posttreatment relative to children in the other intervention despite having comparable rates of attachment insecurity pretreatment (Bernard et al., 2012).”
From Relational Interventions for Maltreated Children (2017) · cites this paper as Bernard et al., 2012
In the citing paper
“Bernard et al. (2012) have previously shown that the ABC intervention was effective in enhancing attachment security.”
From Intervening to enhance cortisol regulation among children at risk for neglect: Results of a randomized clinical trial (2015) · cites this paper as Bernard et al., 2012
In the citing paper
“Given that the effectiveness of the ABC intervention has now been demonstrated on both behavioral outcomes (i.e., attachment organization, Bernard et al., 2012; cognitive flexibility, Lewis-Morrarty, Dozier, Bernard, Terracciano, & Moore, 2012) and biological outcomes”
From Intervening to enhance cortisol regulation among children at risk for neglect: Results of a randomized clinical trial (2015) · cites this paper as Bernard et al., 2012
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§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Results > Preliminary results
“Fifty children (42%) were classified as secure (B)”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Results > Primary results
“Whereas 52% of children in the ABC intervention group had secure attachments, only 33% of children in the DEF intervention group had secure attachments.”
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“25 were Biracial (20%)”
§ Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial > Method > Participants
Reported 20 · recomputed 20.833333
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- Authors
- Bernard, K., Dozier, M., Bick, J., Lewis-Morrarty, E., Lindhiem, O., & Carlson, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Delaware (US)
- University of Delaware
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bernard, Kristin
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2012-03-01
- Volume
- 83
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 623-636
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8624
- PMC
- PMC3305815
- OpenAlex
- W2121953174
- Semantic Scholar
- 3e4e4c3301fe96d7de3a442b519a4475d8b47f1e
- Cited by
- 430
- References
- 73
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 38 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 54 · 2019: 37 · 2018: 27 · 2017: 38 · 2016: 33 · 2015: 34 · 2014: 26 · 2013: 23 · 2012: 10
- FWCI
- 44.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- Child Development (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH084135, R01MH052135, R01MH074374)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Keywords
- Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up, disorganized attachment, secure attachment, child abuse, child neglect, childhood adversity, nurturing care, parent intervention, attachment quality, young children, Strange Situation
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Child, Preschool, Education, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Infant, Life Change Events, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Young Adult
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