Attachment
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Detaching RAD from DSED: the rationale and research requirements
Attachment disorders were defined in the clinical literature >40 years ago, but their systematic analysis has only occurred relatively recently. In 2015, Charles Zeanah and Mary Margaret Gleason compiled an Annual Research Review into attachment disorders in early childhood for the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Here, the researchers outline the key findings from their review and provide an update as to how the field has progressed over the past years.
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Early adversity impacts on associative learning
Exposure to adversity during childhood negatively impacts on behavioural development due to suboptimal associative learning, according to data from a new study.
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