When people compare Asian parenting styles with Western styles of parenting, they may erroneously think it’s one simply of culture. While culture plays a significant role, one must look deeper by ...

Our earliest experiences with caregivers serve as inner templates for life-long beliefs about self, relationships, and the world-at-large. We can trace back how we currently manage stress and trauma ...

A knowledge of attachment theories can be invaluable in helping children's social workers solve many of the issues facing them, Judy Cooper finds A knowledge of attachment theories can be invaluable ...

In 2010, Amir Levine and Rachel Heller released the book Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love. Despite the book’s many strengths, it has also ...

Sheri Madigan receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation, an anonymous donor, and ...

Pascal Vrticka received funding from the Max Planck Society (Germany) for parts of his work on the social neuroscience of human attachment described in this piece. Originally rooted in developmental ...

If you're struggling to understand your partner and why they act the way they do, try using attachment theory. Attachment theory is a tremendous field of research that is fascinating to read about.

How do you feel when your partner doesn't respond to your text right away? Is it easy for you to express your feelings to friends or loved ones, or do you struggle? Do you stay in touch with exes?

There was a time, in my mid-20s, when I became completely obsessed with why I was the way I was. I’d just been through a major break-up, and what followed was a period of intense and intentional ...