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This comprehensive Handbook provides a landmark review and synthesis of the current state of knowledge about attachment and loss in children and adults. Bringing researchers, clinicians, and students up to date on one of the leading theoretical perspectives in contemporary psychology, preeminent authorities in the field cover the origins and development of attachment theory, biological perspectives, measurement of attachment across the lifespan, clinical applications, and emerging topics and perspectives.
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Offers a broad view of attachment theory to professionals who generally encounter and understand it only in the context of one of the many fields it has permeated. Assembles such information as what the founders of the approach had to say originally, what subsequent research has revealed, what measures have been developed and what they actually measure, and what recent theoretical and empirical developed contribute to the overall story of attachment relationships and personality development. Also suitable as a core text for a course devoted to attachment theory and research. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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