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A Matter of Timing: Enhancing Positive Change for the Developing Brain
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Fox, Nathan A.; Zeanah, Charles H.; Nelson, Charles A. – ZERO TO THREE, 2014
Neuroscientists have long believed that there are sensitive periods in development during which the effects of experience play a critical role. And developmental psychologists have argued for the importance of early experience in the first years of life as being critical for brain and behavioral development. Most of the neuroscience research…
Descriptors: Child Development, Brain, Child Behavior, Environmental Influences
The Development of Infant-Parent Attachment: Considerations for Assessment.
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Boris, Neil W.; Aoki, Yutaka; Zeanah, Charles H. – Infants and Young Children, 1999
Reviews the construct of attachment, its role as a motivational system in infancy, and its development in the first three years. Emphasizes that attachment must be assessed in the context of particular infant-parent relationships, and reviews specific infant and caregiver behaviors salient to the assessment of attachment. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Developmental Stages, Evaluation Methods
Beyond Insecurity: A Reconceptualization of Attachment Disorders of Infancy.
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Zeanah, Charles H. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
Reviews and critiques the approaches of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the International Classification of Diseases to attachment disorders and finds that they have not made use of findings from developmental research on attachment in developing their criteria. Presents an alternative system of classifying attachment…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Child Behavior, Dependency (Personality)