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ATTACHMENT & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Volume 15, Issue 5-6, Pages 583-602Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14616734.2013.841050
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microanalysis of mother-infant interaction; infant attachment; maternal sensitivity
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH056130] Funding Source: Medline
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Microanalysis research on 4-month infant-mother face-to-face communication operates like a social microscope and identifies aspects of maternal sensitivity and the origins of attachment with a more detailed lens. We hope to enhance a dialogue between these two paradigms, microanalysis of mother-infant communication and maternal sensitivity and emerging working models of attachment. The prediction of infant attachment from microanalytic approaches and their contribution to concepts of maternal sensitivity are described. We summarize aspects of one microanalytic study by Beebe and colleagues published in 2010 that documents new communication patterns between mothers and infants at 4 months that predict future disorganized (vs. secure) attachment. The microanalysis approach opens up a new window on the details of the micro-processes of face-to-face communication. It provides a new, rich set of behaviors with which to extend our understanding of the origins of infant attachment and of maternal sensitivity.
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