Evaluarea relaţiei de ataşamen t în copi lăria mic ă: revederea in strumen telor de evaluare
Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Objectives: The present study aims to present a review of the measures used to evaluate the attachment in adoption research.Particularly, we will present a new measure to detect the development of the attachment bond in adopted children: as recent studies on this topic suggest (Palacios & Brodzinsky, 2010), we need tools allowing to evaluated both results of adoption and the process of relationship construction.Method: We reviewed the available measures evaluating attachment in the adoptive samples, with specific pros and cons.Furthermore, we focused on an different instrument, the Parent Attachment Diary (PAD: Stovall & Dozier, 1996).This measure can rely on parental reports and it allows to describe the early process of attachment development to adoptive parents.Conclusions: Within the available instruments measuring attachment, PAD seems to be an useful instrument for adoptive samples, integrating the existing and more validated instruments.Practical implications: PAD seems to be a useful tool in post-adoption intervention: on one hand it helps parents reflecting upon the behaviour of the child and on the other hand it can precociously highlight any attachment distress.
Authors: Patrick A. Molina, M. Casonato
Language: Romanian
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2611638944