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Papers

(The median citation count of Attachment & Human Development is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues	56
Working toward anti-racist perspectives in attachment theory, research, and practice	45
The effectiveness of parenting programs in regard to improving parental reflective functioning: a meta-analysis	32
Taking perspective on attachment theory and research: nine fundamental questions	32
Longitudinal study of the cascading effects of racial discrimination on parenting and adjustment among African American youth	27
Mothers’ preparation for bias and responses to children’s distress predict positive adjustment among Black children: an attachment perspective	23
Prospecting the attachment research field: a move to the level of engagement	23
Replication crisis lost in translation? On translational caution and premature applications of attachment theory	21
Six attachment discourses: convergence, divergence and relay	21
Father–child attachment in Black families: risk and protective processes	18
Improving the parent–child relationship and child adjustment through parental reflective functioning group intervention	17
Associations of peripheral blood DNA methylation and estimated monocyte proportion differences during infancy with toddler attachment style	15
Attachment perspectives on race, prejudice, and anti-racism: Introduction to the Special Issue	15
Probing the association between maternal anxious attachment style and mother-child brain-to-brain coupling during passive co-viewing of visual stimuli	14
Infant mental health home visiting: intervention dosage and therapist experience interact to support improvements in maternal reflective functioning	14
Attachment research and anti-racism: learning from Black and Brown scholars	13
Mothers’ parental mentalization, attachment dimensions and mother-infant relational patterns	13
Enhancing the “broaden-and-build” cycle of attachment security as a means of overcoming prejudice, discrimination, and racism	12
Adult attachment is related to maternal neural response to infant cues: an ERP study	12
Neighborhood poverty, allostatic load, and changes in cellular aging in African American young adults: the moderating role of attachment	11
Multiple facets of attachment in residential-care, late adopted, and community adolescents: an interview-based comparative study	11
Convergent validity and stability of secure base script knowledge from young adulthood to midlife	11
Video observations of sensitive caregiving “off the beaten track”: introduction to the special issue	10
Increasing maternal sensitivity to infant distress through attachment-based intervention: a randomized controlled trial	9
Race, discrimination, and racism as “growing points” for consideration: attachment theory and research with African American families	9

Parental support and insecure attachment development: the cortisol stress response as a moderator	8
Then and now: the legacy and future of attachment research	8
Associations of maternal sensitivity and embodied mentalizing with infant-mother attachment security at one year in depressed and non-depressed dyads	8
Can the family drawing be a useful tool for assessing attachment representations in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis	8
eConnect: implementation and preliminary evaluation of a virtually delivered attachment-based parenting intervention during COVID-19	8
Growing points in attachment disorganization: looking back to advance forward	8
It takes a village: a call for engaging attachment with adjunct disciplines to clarify “in-house” clinical conundrums	7
Observing maternal sensitivity in a South African township: an exploratory study into behavioral features using different measures	7
Intergenerational transmission of trauma from mother to infant: the mediating role of disrupted prenatal maternal representations of the child	7
Failure to resolve loss and compromised mentalizing in female inpatients with major depressive disorder	7
Charting the social neuroscience of human attachment (SoNeAt)	7
Concepts travel faster than thought: an empirical study of the use of attachment classifications in child protection investigations	7
Parents’ resolution of their child’s diagnosis: A scoping review	7
Attachment dimensions and cortisol responses during the strange situation among young children adopted internationally	7
Deactivating attachment strategies associate with early processing of facial emotion and familiarity in middle childhood: an ERP study	7
Does secure base script knowledge mediate associations between observed parental caregiving during childhood and adult romantic relationship quality and health?	7
Foster children’s attachment representations: the role of type of maltreatment and the relationship with birth family	6
Maternal sensitivity in rural Andean and Amazonian Peru	6
Sensitive parenting in urban slums in Makassar, Indonesia: the roles of experienced child maltreatment and sociodemographic risk	6
A meta-analysis of the distribution of preschool and early childhood attachment as assessed in the strange situation procedure and its modified versions	6
Multisystem physiological reactivity during help-seeking for attachment needs in school-aged children: differences as a function of attachment	6
Maternal sensitivity in interactions with their 2-month-old infants in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil	6
Video observations of maternal sensitivity in urban and Rural Iran: an exploratory study	5
Development of the virtual-VIPP and a systematic review of online support for families during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Cross-modal coherence and incoherence of early infant interactive behavior: links to attachment in infants born very preterm or full-term	5
Longitudinal associations between self-reported attachment dimensions and neurostructural development from adolescence to early adulthood	5
Children’s emerging receptive, positive orientation toward their parents in the network of early attachment relationships	5
Verbal - prosodic association when narrating early caregiving experiences during the adult attachment interview: differences between secure and dismissing individuals	5
Love in a time of anti-Blackness: social rank, attachment, and race in psychotherapy	4
Observing sensitivity in slums in Yemen: the veiled challenge	4
A deeper look at the association between childhood maltreatment and reflective functioning	4
Pathways linking attachment and depressive symptoms for Black and White adolescents: do race and neighborhood racism matter?	4
Parental mentalization goes to school: a brief online mentalization-based intervention to improve parental academic support	4
The intergenerational transmission of attachment during middle childhood in lesbian, gay, and heterosexual parent families through assisted reproduction: The mediating role of reflective functioning	4
Video observations of sensitivity in context: integrating insights from seven cultural communities	4
The significance of mothers’ attachment representations for vagal responding during interactions with infants	3
Attachment and brooding rumination during children’s transition to adolescence: the moderating role of effortful control	3
A “transmission gap” between research and practice? A Q-methodology study of perceptions of the application of attachment theory among clinicians working with children and among attachment researchers	3
Associations between Turkish incarcerated mothers’ sensitivity and their co-residing children’s attachment: The moderating role of children’s temperament	3
Representations of attachment security, attachment avoidance, and gender in Ugandan children	3
The God, the blood, and the fuzzy: reflections onCornerstonesand two target articles	3
Brain responses to social cues of attachment in mid-childhood	3
Parent-child relationship and child anger proneness in infancy and attachment security at toddler age: a short-term longitudinal study of mother- and father-child dyads	3
The contributions of maternal oxytocin and maternal sensitivity to infant attachment security	3
Attachment and attitudes toward children: effects of security priming in parents and non-parents	3
Revisiting the founder of attachment theory: memories and informal reflections	3