Reviewed by Emily Edlynn, PhD Parenting is probably the most difficult job you'll have in your lifetime. That's especially ...

In the context of intimate partner violence (IPV), attachment theory provides a theoretical framework for understanding the ...

Attachment theory continues to provide an evolving and flexible framework, however inconclusive, in understanding how ...

The styles come from attachment theory, which arose in the late 1960s out of work conducted by psychologists John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth. Bowlby hypothesized that if young children did not form ...

An avoidant attachment style is characterized by a reluctance ... Not having emotionally responsive parental figures as a child can teach them to be unresponsive to themselves when they are ...

Peter Choate, professor of social work at Mount Royal University in Canada, speaks to CE about child sexual abuse, the neurobiology of trauma, attachment styles, and harmful sexual behaviour.