Attachment-Informed Interventions for Children and Adolescents
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 107
Special Issue Editor
Interests: developmental psychology; educational psychology; life cycle psychology; development in adolescence; attachment relationships; family; learning and quality of educational settings
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Dear Colleagues,
Attachment theory provides a powerful perspective through which to understand how early relational experiences influence emotional, social, and cognitive development throughout childhood and adolescence. This framework has inspired a growing number of interventions and programs that aim to strengthen caregiving relationships and encourage positive development, especially in situations where children and families are facing significant challenges.
This Special Issue invites contributions that explore how attachment theory informs practices in educational, family, and community settings. We encourage studies that examine established and emerging approaches, such as parenting support programs, early childhood education initiatives, school-based interventions, and psychotherapeutic models, that draw on attachment principles to foster secure relationships and social-emotional growth.
We welcome submissions of empirical research (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods), systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and conceptual contributions. Multidisciplinary and international perspectives are particularly encouraged to reflect the diversity of contexts in which attachment-informed practices are developed and applied.
Dr. Valentina Lucia La Rosa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- attachment theory
- developmental psychology
- early relationships
- socio-emotional development
- care-giving
- parenting support
- early intervention
- psychoeducational programs
- psychotherapeutic approaches
- psychoeducational interventions
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