Course extract: Attachment theory

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This course taster is taken from the Open University’s ‘Child Development’ course (ED209). It is an extract from one of the four course text books (Oates, J., Lewis, C. and Lamb, M. E. (2005) ‘Parenting and attachment’, in Ding, S. and Littleton, K. S. (eds) Children’s Personal and Social Development, Oxford, Blackwell.) © Open University 2005

References
Bowlby, J. (1969) Attachment and loss: Vol. 1. Attachment, New York, Basic Books.
Bowlby, J. (1973) Attachment and loss: Vol. 2. Separation: Anxiety and anger, New York, Basic Books.
Bowlby, J. (1988) A secure base: Parent-child attachment and healthy human development, New York, Basic Books.
Bretherton, I. (1990) ‘Open communication and internal working models: Their role in the development of attachment relationships’, in Thompson, R. A. (ed.), Socioemotional development, pp. 57-114, Lincoln U.S.A., University of Nebraska Press.
Bretherton, I. (1991) ‘Pouring new wine into old bottles: The social self as internal working model’, in Gunnar, M. R. and Sroufe, L. A. (eds), Self process and development: Minnesota symposia on child psychology, vol. 23, pp. 1-41, Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Bretherton, I. (1993) ‘From dialogue to internal working models: The co-construction of self relationships’, in Nelson, C. A. (ed) Memory and affect in development: Minnesota symposia on child psychology, vol. 26, pp. 237-263, Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Winnicott, D. W. (1953) ‘Transitional objects and transitional phenomena’, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, vol. 34, pp. 89-97.

This extract from course ED209 is © Open University 2005

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