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Attachment in mental health institutions: a critical review of assumptions clinical implications and research strategies
- Authors:
- SCHUENGEL C., IJZENDOORN M.H. Van
- Journal article citation:
- Attachment and Human Development, 3(3), December 2001, pp.304-323.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Attachment is relevant to institutionalised treatment and the therapeutic process in three identifiable ways: patients bring their mental representations of previous and existing attachment relationships to the treatment; attachment is relevant to the extent to which a therapeutic alliance is established and maintained. The outcome of the treatment may be related to attachment. Presents a review of attachment concepts which reveals that the several theoretical, conceptual and empirical questions remain to be answered before evidence-based clinical attachment guidelines can be formulated concerning patient-staff relationships.