This is a use of splitting as a defense to maintain an attachment relationship in an unsafe world.

The third involves asking children actual questions about their attachment relationships.

These techniques are designed to access the childs internal working models of their attachment relationships.

Serious relationship disturbances are considered likely to be important contributors to difficulties in establishing new attachment relationships.

Foster parents may also present barriers to forming healthy attachment relationships.

The effects of a secure attachment relationship on right brain development, affect regulation, and infant mental health.

Children usually begin to develop a single general model of attachment relationships during adolescence, although this may occur in middle childhood.

Instead, on one level they have a set of rules and assumptions about attachment relationships in general.

Each of these groups reflects a different kind of attachment relationship with the mother.

For example, carried babies developed a more secure attachment relationship with their mothers at 1 year.