Social Work Theory of Attachment Term Paper

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Grohol J. (2005). Attachment Theory. Psych Central. Retrieved October 7, 2005 from the World Wide Web: http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Attachment_theory

Psych Central is a web site which provides free mental health, support and psychology information and resources online since 1992. The site is clustered with numerous links to psychological issues and people related to this field. This article has been written by Dr. John Grohol who is a renowned psychologist and owner of this web portal. The article focuses on the theory of attachment explaining various behavioral patterns observed in the canvas of this theory.

Holmes, J. (1993). John Bowlby and Attachment Theory. New York: Routledge.

Jeremy Holmes is a Consultant Psychiatrist/Psychotherapist in North Devon

District Hospital, Barn Staple, United Kingdom. He is also a visiting professor at Psychoanalysis Unit University College London. In this book, Jeremy Holmes provides a focused and coherent account of Bowlby's life and work, based on interviews with members of his family and with psychoanalysts who knew him. The author highlights the Bowlby's Attachment Theory which is one of the major theoretical developments in psychoanalysis last century. The book focuses on combining the rigorous scientific empiricism of ethology with the subjective insights of psychoanalysis. Holmes commends Bowlby's work and states that the attachment theory had an enormous impact in the fields of child development, social work, psychology, and psychiatry.


Janus Online Web Dictionary. (2004, November 22). Definition of Social Work. Retrieved October 7, 2005 from the World Wide Web: http://janus.state.me.us/legis/statutes/32/title32sec7001-A.html

The web site is an online resource for various definitions and explanation of various terms used in the language. The site contains list of words which are distributed in titles or categories. It is a comprehensive portal of the language.

Pietromonaco P.R. And Barrett L. F, (2000). Attachment Theory as an Organizing Framework: A view from different levels of analysis. Review of General Psychology, 4, No 2,107-110.

Review of General Psychology is a quarterly journal and publishes new theoretical, conceptual, or methodological articles that focus on the traditional sub-disciplines of psychology. It is an approved journal of American Psychological Association (APA). The writers of the article are renowned psychologists. Paula R. Pietrornonaco is teaching at University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Lisa Feldman Barrett at Boston College. The article encompasses most of the aspects of the diverse theory of attachment from its evolution to its present….....

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