Challenging Attachment Theory (eBook)

Part 1. Setting the Stage. Chapter 1. Who is Psychology About? Chapter 2. The Universality Assumption. Chapter 3. The Concept of Context. Chapter 4. The Conception of Culture. Chapter 5. Variability of Children's Learning Environments. 5.1 Interactional dynamics across cultural communities. 5.2 Similarities and Differences. Chapter 6. Implications for Culture Conscious Research. Part 2. Attachment Theory: Science and Reality. Chapter 7. History and Core Assumptions of Attachment Theory. The origins and history of attachment theory. What is attachment? The basic assumptions of attachment theory. 7.4 Critical evaluation of the core assumptions. Chapter 8. The Ethnocentric Bias of Attachment Theory. Chapter 9. Different Avenues to Develop Attachment Relationships. Chapter 10. Is attachment theory a scientific theory at all? Chapter 11. Concluding evaluation of attachment theory. Part 3. Attachment and the Applied Field: More Areas of Construction. Chapter 12. Parenting Interventions. Chapter 13. Family Court Decisions and Child Custody. Chapter 14. Early Pedagogics. Part 4. Problems of Change. Chapter 15. Ignorance and resistance. Chapter 16. The stairway to change. Chapter 17. Outlook. References.