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From foremost authorities, this comprehensive work is more than just the standard reference on attachment-it has "become indispensable" in the field. Coverage includes the origins and development of attachment theory; biological and evolutionary perspectives; and the role of attachment processes in personality, relationships, and mental health across the lifespan.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• I Overview of Attachment Theory
• 1 The Nature of the Child's Ties
• 2 Disruptions in Attachment Bonds: Implications for Theory, Research, and Clinical Intervention
• 3 Attachment, Loss, and Grief: Bowlby's Views and Current Controversies
• 4 Individual Differences in Infant-Caregiver Attachment: Conceptual and Empirical Aspects of Security
• 5 Internal Working Models in Attachment Relationships: Elaborating a Central Construct in Attachment Theory
• II Biological Perspectives
• 6 Attachment Theory within a Modern Evolutionary Framework
• 7 Psychobiological Origins of Infant Attachment and Its Role in Development
• 8 Attachment in Rhesus Monkeys
• 9 Attachment and Temperament: Additive and Interactive Influences on Behavior, Affect, and Cognition during Infancy and Childhood
• 10 Studying the Biology of Human Attachment
• 11 Toward a Neuroscience of Attachment
• III Attachment in Infancy and Childhood
• 12 Normative Development: The Ontogeny of Attachment
• 13 Precursors of Attachment Security
• 14 Attachment Relationships in the Context of Multiple Caregivers
• 15 The Influence of Early Attachments on Other Relationships
• 16 Early Attachment and Later Development: Familiar Questions, New Answers
• 17 Attachment in Middle Childhood
• 18 The Measurement of Attachment Security and Related Constructs in Infancy and Early Childhood
• IV Attachment in Adolescence and Adulthood
• 19 The Attachment System in Adolescence
• 20 Pair Bonds as Attachments: Reevaluating the Evidence
• 21 Adult Romantic Attachment: Developments in the Study of Couple Relationships
• 22 Same-Sex Romantic Attachment
• 23 Adult Attachment and Affect Regulation
• 24 Attachment in Middle and Later Life
• 25 The Adult Attachment Interview: Protocol, Method of Analysis, and Empirical Studies
• 26 Measurement of Individual Differences in Adolescent and Adult Attachment
• V Psychopathology and Clinical Applications of Attachment Theory and Research
• 27 Attachment and Psychopathology in Childhood

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

In this thorough revision of the first edition of their handbook (CH, Nov'99, 37-1841), Cassidy (Univ. of Maryland) and Shaver (Univ. of California, Davis) have added new chapters on such topics as social neuroscience, affect regulation, attachment in the middle-childhood years, foster care, divorce, and attachment in an aging population. In addition, all the chapters in the first edition have been updated to include discoveries made over the past decade. In particular, the impact of new discoveries in neuroscience and behavioral genetics are evident in many chapters, and reports of translational research that continue to link attachment theory to clinical applications are even more prevalent. The unique feature of this handbook is the integration of content in each chapter with that presented elsewhere in the volume; indeed, the extensive cross-referencing testifies to the interdependence among the volume's contributors. Predictions that the first edition of this handbook would become a classic reference in the field have been fulfilled, and the same can certainly be said for this second edition. Even those who own the first edition will want to acquire this one. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers, all levels. R. B. Stewart Jr. Oakland University

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jude Cassidy, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland and Director of the Maryland Child and Family Development Laboratory. Her research focuses on attachment, social and emotional development in children and adolescents, social information processing, peer relations, and early intervention. Dr. Cassidy serves as coeditor of the journal Attachment and Human Development. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and received a Boyd R. McCandless Young Scientist Award from the American Psychological Association. Phillip R. Shaver, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. He has published several books and over 200 journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Shaver's research focuses on attachment, human motivation and emotion, close relationships, personality development, and the effects of meditation on behavior and brain. He is a fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. He received a Distinguished Career Award from the International Association for Relationship Research and is currently President of that organization.