Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Our study of the history and current situation of attachment research has been supported by an Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust (2014–2020). Using a variety of social scientific and historical methodologies, we have attempted to understand the achievements and challenges of attachment research over time, and to gain insight into the underlying logic and infrastructure that have oriented the field’s work and contributions. This article reports from an integration of observations from these different lines of inquiry. Our work has hugely benefited from guidance and support from Marinus van IJzendoorn and Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg. Members of the team are supported by funds from Wellcome Trust and National Institute of Health Research, School for Primary Care Research.

Funding Information:
Our study of the history and current situation of attachment research has been supported by an Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust (2014?2020). Using a variety of social scientific and historical methodologies, we have attempted to understand the achievements and challenges of attachment research over time, and to gain insight into the underlying logic and infrastructure that have oriented the field?s work and contributions. This article reports from an integration of observations from these different lines of inquiry. Our work has hugely benefited from guidance and support from Marinus van IJzendoorn and Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg. Members of the team are supported by funds from Wellcome Trust and National Institute of Health Research, School for Primary Care Research. Doctoral projects within our group have included:Sarah Foster has used focus groups and vignette-based interviews with clinical psychologists, social workers and family doctors to understand how practitioners draw on the contributions of attachment research in their work. Helen Beckwith has used Q methodology to study convergence and divergence among and within the theoretical commitments of attachment researchers and clinicians. Lianne Bakkum has used secondary data analysis to examine the meaning of the unresolved attachment classification, drawing from interviews with Adult Attachment Interview trainers and close study of published and unpublished work by Bowlby and Main. Barry Coughlan has used analysis of structured and unstructured data from a large set of clinical records, together with interviews with clinicians, to understand how attachment features within differential diagnosis of child mental health needs.

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