A growing body of attachment literature has focused on bridging the gap between research and clinical applications, even in clinical work with adoptive families. A brief-term clinical intervention focused on a multi-method assessment of attachment relationships and representations was performed in the first year after placement. This single case study aimed at analysing the attachment outcomes, through a long-term follow-up, both for the adoptive mother and her late-adopted son. We assumed that this five-session attachment oriented intervention could help the mother enhance her sensitivity skills and her ability to understand both her own past attachment experiences and her child’s insecure attachment as a consequence of the failures of his previous experiences of care, supporting her six year old child in acquiring a positive image of himself and of others and the security of the caregiver’s availability up to adolescence.

A proposal for a brief-term post-adoption intervention in the attachment-perspective. A single case study with a late-adopted child and his adoptive mother / Pace, CECILIA SERENA; D'Onofrio, Ester; Guerriero, Viviana; Zavattini, Giulio Cesare. - In: RESEARCH IN PSYCHOTHERAPY. - ISSN 2239-8031. - ELETTRONICO. - 19:1(2016), pp. 31-40. [10.4081/ripppo.2016.197]

A proposal for a brief-term post-adoption intervention in the attachment-perspective. A single case study with a late-adopted child and his adoptive mother

PACE, CECILIA SERENA;D'ONOFRIO, ESTER;GUERRIERO, VIVIANA;ZAVATTINI, Giulio Cesare
2016

Abstract

A growing body of attachment literature has focused on bridging the gap between research and clinical applications, even in clinical work with adoptive families. A brief-term clinical intervention focused on a multi-method assessment of attachment relationships and representations was performed in the first year after placement. This single case study aimed at analysing the attachment outcomes, through a long-term follow-up, both for the adoptive mother and her late-adopted son. We assumed that this five-session attachment oriented intervention could help the mother enhance her sensitivity skills and her ability to understand both her own past attachment experiences and her child’s insecure attachment as a consequence of the failures of his previous experiences of care, supporting her six year old child in acquiring a positive image of himself and of others and the security of the caregiver’s availability up to adolescence.
2016
brief-term post-adoption; attachment-perspective; late-adopted child
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A proposal for a brief-term post-adoption intervention in the attachment-perspective. A single case study with a late-adopted child and his adoptive mother / Pace, CECILIA SERENA; D'Onofrio, Ester; Guerriero, Viviana; Zavattini, Giulio Cesare. - In: RESEARCH IN PSYCHOTHERAPY. - ISSN 2239-8031. - ELETTRONICO. - 19:1(2016), pp. 31-40. [10.4081/ripppo.2016.197]
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