Child-Parent Relationship Therapy: Child-Parent Interaction Therapy of Sheila Eyberg (on foreign sources)

Abstract

On materials of foreign sources the article regards the development of substantive provisions of attachment theory by J. Bowlby and M. Ainsworth, as well as modern research in psychology of attachment. The following issues are discussed: modern interpretation of the attachment system, influence of maternal responsiveness, quality of guardianship on the formation of the child's attachment to his/her mother, classification of attachments; mental representations of attachment; cultural differences in the classification of attachments in American, West German, Japanese, and Russian studies of attachment; attachment disorders, therapy of attachment; unaddressed issues and perspectives of attachment theory.

Keywords

• attachment
• quality of care
• types of attachment
• operational models of attachment
• attachment impairments
• cultural differences in the classifications of attachment
• attachment and psychotherapy