Emotional Availability: Theory, Research, and Intervention

Attachment Theory (Bowlby, 1969) and its limitations are first described. Next, emotional availability (EA; Biringen, Robinson, & Emde, 1998; Biringen, 2008) is introduced as an expansion upon the original conceptualization of the parent-child attachment relationship. As a construct and as a mea...

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Main Authors: Hannah eSaunders, Allyson eKraus, Lavinia eBarone, Zeynep eBiringen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01069/full