What is it about?
We use a child friendly assessment called the Story Stem Assessment profile, to explore the internal representations of children who are looked after and compare against a community sample.
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Why is it important?
This paper highlights the importance of understanding children who enter the care systems attachment styles to ensure the support systems such as foster carers or residential staff have the appropriate knowledge to support children to recover from adversity.
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This helpfully validates precious research into the low levels of secure attachment in children who need to be looked after and identifies levels of disorganised, insecure and avoidant representations.
Mr Richard Cross
Bournemouth University
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This page is a summary of: Exploring Attachment and Internal Representations in Looked-After Children, Frontiers in Psychology, March 2020, Frontiers,
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00464.
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