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Attachment and Affect Regulation: A Framework for Family Treatment of Conduct Disorder *
Author(s) -
Keiley Margaret K.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2002.41312.x
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , affect regulation , intervention (counseling) , psychology , conduct disorder , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , attachment theory , communication
Conduct disorder (CD), a pervasive adolescent disorder with clinically significant antisocial behaviors, has been a difficult syndrome to treat successfully. Recently, research on affect regulation and attachment has suggested that attachment and affect regulation strategies may underlie the development of conduct disorder in adolescents, implying that attention to these factors might improve family treatment for CD. In this review of the research literature, I discuss the role of attachment and affect regulation in the development and treatment of CD. In addition, I present information about the framework, intervention protocol, and preliminary evidence of effectiveness of an attachment‐ and affect regulation‐based intervention that has been developed and implemented with multiple‐family groups of parents and incarcerated adolescents.