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Challenging Attachment Theory: Ethnocentrism, Science, and Child Development

Author(s) : Heidi Keller

Table of Contents

Part 1 - Setting the Stage
1. Who is Psychology About?
2. The Universality Assumption
3. The Concept of Context
4. The Conception of Culture
5. Variability of Children’s Learning Environments
5.1 Interactional dynamics across cultural communities
5.2 Similarities and Differences
6. Implications for Culture Conscious Research

Part 2 - Attachment Theory: Science and Reality
7. History and Core Assumptions of Attachment Theory
7.1 The origins and history of attachment theory
7.2 What is attachment?
7.3 The basic assumptions of attachment theory
7.4 Critical evaluation of the core assumptions
8. The Ethnocentric Bias of Attachment Theory
9. Different Avenues to Develop Attachment Relationships
10. Is attachment theory a scientific theory at all?
11. Concluding evaluation of attachment theory

Part 3 - Attachment and the Applied Field: More Areas of Construction
12. Parenting Interventions
13. Family Court Decisions and Child Custody
14. Early Pedagogics

Part 4 - Problems of Change
15. Ignorance and resistance
16. The stairway to change
17. Outlook

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