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Adult Attachment Interview
Standardized interview used to assess developmental and attachment history.

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NPicchetti Initial definition retrieved from http://www.patcrittenden.com/adult-attachment.html
about ten months ago
AIvey More needed, I guess. The original definition here strikes me as incorrect and misleading and certainly not representative of Bowlby's or Main's ideas. The adult attachment interview is actually Mary Main's well-known interview to assess developmental and attachment history. It has been used for years and is the standard. Please visit and see the rest of the commentary on the Adult Attachment Interview: http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/attachment/measures/content/aai_interview.pdf Adult Attachment Interview (Mary Main) Introduction I’m going to be interviewing you about your childhood experiences, and how those experiences may have affected your adult personality. So, I'd like to ask you about your early relationship with your family, and what you think about the way it might have affected you. We'll focus mainly on your childhood, but later we'll get on to your adolescence and then to what's going on right now. This interview often takes about an hour, but it could be anywhere between 45 minutes and an hour and a half. 1. Could you start by helping me get oriented to your early family situation, and where you lived and so on? If you could tell me where you were born, whether you moved around much, what Etc.
about one year ago
AIvey NEED TO CORRECT DEFINITION OF ADULT ATTACHMENT INTERVIEW
about one year ago
RPoldrack Please go ahead and edit the description as you see fit.
about one year ago

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Definition contributed by BGregory about ten months ago:
a procedure for assessing adults' strategies for identifying, preventing, and protecting the self from perceived dangers, particularly dangers tied to intimate relationships.

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Definition contributed by BGregory about one year ago:
a procedure for assessing adults' strategies for identifying, preventing, and protecting the self from perceived dangers, particularly dangers tied to intimate relationships. (from http://www.patcrittenden.com/adult-attachment.html)

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Definition contributed by SAdministrator about two years ago:
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Using the adult attachment interview to understand reactive attachment disorder: findings from a 10-case adolescent sample.
Goldwyn R, Hugh-Jones S
Attachment & human development (Attach Hum Dev)
2011 Mar
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Mothers' attachment status as determined by the Adult Attachment Interview predicts their 6-year-olds' reunion responses: a study conducted in Japan.
Behrens KY, Hesse E, Main M
Developmental psychology (Dev Psychol)
2007 Nov
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Introduction to the special section on attachment and psychopathology: 2. Overview of the field of attachment.
Main M
(J Consult Clin Psychol)
1996 Apr
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