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Learning to provide children with a secure base and a safe haven: The Circle of Security‐Parenting (COS‐P) group intervention
Author(s) -
Kim Monica,
Woodhouse Susan S.,
Dai Chenchen
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.22643
Subject(s) - safe haven , intervention (counseling) , psychology , psychological intervention , haven , developmental psychology , insecure attachment , protocol (science) , clinical psychology , attachment theory , psychiatry , medicine , international economics , alternative medicine , mathematics , pathology , combinatorics , economics
Insecure attachment is linked to a host of negative child outcomes, including internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. Circle of Security‐Parenting (COS‐P) is a manualized, video‐based, eight unit, group parenting intervention to promote children's attachment security. COS‐P was designed to be easily implemented, so as to make attachment interventions more widely available to families. We present the theoretical background of COS‐P, research evidence supporting the COS approach, as well as a description of the COS‐P intervention protocol. The case example of “Alexa,” mother of three children (aged 7, 6, and 4 years), illustrates how parents can make use of the COS‐P intervention to better understand children's needs, build skills in observing and interpreting children's signals, learn to recognize and regulate their own responses to their children, and learn new ways of responding to children's needs.