Insecure Attachment 269for example, between borderline personality disorder and preoccupied or
unresolved attachment. Future research needs to integrate the insights
gained from attachment theory with other findings from developmental
psychopathology more broadly.
Subject review
DeKleyn M, Greenberg M. (2008) Attachment and psychopathology in
childhood.In: Cassidy J, Shaver PR (eds)Handbook of Attachment: The-
ory, Research, and Clinical Applications, 2nd edn. Guilford, New York,
pp. 637–665.
Further reading
Bakermans-Kraneburg MJet al. (2003) Less is more: meta-analyses of
sensitivity and attachment interventions in early childhood.Psychological
Bulletin 129 , 195–215. (A classic review showing early interventions do
not need to be prolonged in order to enhance parental interventions and
promote secure attachments.)
Berlinet al. (2007) Enhancing Early Attachments: Theory, Research, Inter-
vention, and Policy. Guilford, New York. (Has chapters on all the main
interventions designed to improve attachment.)
Cassidy J, Shaver PR. (2008)Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and
Clinical Applications, 2nd edn. Guilford, New York. (Great overall review
book covering scientific underpinnings and clinical applications.)
Futh Aet al. (2008). Attachment narratives and behavioural and emo-
tional symptoms in an ethnically diverse, at-risk sample.Journal of the
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 47 , 709–718. (Shows
that attachment insecurity as elicited by doll-play tasks predicts more
psychopathology in 4–6- year-olds.)
Grossman K, Grossman K, Waters E. (2005)Attachment from Infancy to
Adulthood. Guilford, New York (Has readable chapters on all the major
longitudinal studies, which now go from infancy to adulthood.)
Scott Set al. (2011) Attachment in adolescence: Overlap with parent-
ing and unique prediction of behavioural adjustment.Journal of Child
Psychology and Psychiatry 52 , 1052–1062. (Shows that good parenting in
adolescence is associated with attachment security, which, however, still
has power to independently predict psychopathology.)