Attachment therapy is a controversial category of alternative child mental health interventions intended to treat attachment disorders.

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Further, as attachment patterns develop within relationships, methods to correct problems with attachment focus on improving the stability and positive qualities of the caregiver child interactions and relationship.

Theoretical principles Like a number of other alternative mental health treatments for children, attachment therapy is based on some assumptions that differ strongly from the theoretical foundations of other attachment based therapies.

Attachment therapy as described in this article should not be confused with other schools of therapy which are more empirically based and which aim to address problems stemming from disrupted attachment to caregivers.

Attachment and attachment behaviors tend to develop between the age of 6 months and 3 years.

This suggests that the influence of maternal care on attachment security is not the same for all children.

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Tenets Common attachment behaviours and emotions, displayed in most social primates including humans, are adaptive.

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This connection between theory of mind and the internal working model may open new areas of study, leading to alterations in attachment theory.

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The biggest challenge to the notion of the universality of attachment theory came from studies conducted in Japan where the concept of amae plays a prominent role in describing family relationships.

Advocates for Children in Therapy, a group that campaigns against attachment therapy, give a list of therapies they state are attachment therapy by another name.

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The other discourse is found in clinical practice, non academic literature and on the Internet where claims are made which have no basis in attachment theory and for which there is no empirical evidence.

Evolutionary psychology may be used as an overall explanatory theory, while attachment theory is another kind of evolutionary psychological approach sometimes applied in the context of mental disorders.

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Some have suggested that, as applied to humans, this nature nurture interactionist perspective allows a synthesis between theories and evidence of social bonding and cooperation across the fields of evolutionary biology, psychology (attachment theory) and cultural anthropology (nurture kinship).

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Clinical practice in children Although attachment theory has become a major scientific theory of socioemotional development with one of the broadest, deepest research lines in modern psychology, it has, until recently, been less used in clinical practice than theories with far less empirical support.

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