Re: temporary caregivers / attachment disorders

["pbs" <rophil@xxxxxxxxx>]

Be sure to look at Mary Dozier's work.  She is at the University of
Delaware (Department of Psychology, Wolfe Hall, University of Delaware,
Newark, DE 19716).  She has been studying attachment in infants in foster
care through an NIMH-funded project in Baltimore.  She has some very nice
and interesting findings.

Roger D. Phillips, Ph.D.
Research Director
Pinebrook Services for Children & Youth
402 N. Fulton Street
Allentown, PA  18102
610 432 3919
610 432 5174 (fax)
rophil@xxxxxxxxx

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> From: Barnes <barnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Child Maltreatment Researchers  
<CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: temporary caregivers / attachment disorders
> Date: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 9:45 AM
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for information/research that links attachment disorders to
> temporary caregivers.  My main focus is on temporary caregivers who fail
to
> make clear to the child that his placement there is temporary and go on
to
> call themselves the parents, implying that this will be a permanent
> relationship.  When the relationship is inevitably severed, what effect
does
> that have on the child?
> 
> Thanks for you help!
> 
> Cheryl Barnes
> barnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>