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A parenting intervention for middle childhood: An expansion of a Circle of Security intensive individual protocol

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2019

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Ellen Andrews*
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Private Practitioner, Brisbane, Australia
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Author for correspondence: Ellen Andrews, Email: ellenandrewspsychology@gmail.com
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Abstract

The intensive Circle of Security intervention is an attachment-based program that utilises video feedback to support parents to understand and respond to their children’s attachment needs. The original group format was developed into an individual protocol for flexible delivery and broad dissemination. This protocol, described elsewhere, has been previously meaningfully applied to caregiver-child dyads up to preschool age. The present case study describes an expansion of the protocol’s applicability to dyads in middle childhood by demonstrating its use with a mother who presented with difficulties managing the externalising behaviours of her 8-year-old daughter.

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attachmentmiddle childhoodparenting interventionCircle of Security intervention
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The Educational and Developmental Psychologist , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , July 2019 , pp. 27 - 31
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© Australian Psychological Society Ltd 2019 

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