Cover -- Understanding Attachment and Attachment Disorders: Theory, Evidence and Practice -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Part One: Attachment and Caregiving -- 2 What is Attachment? -- 3 The Classifications of Attachment -- 4 What are the Factors Influencing Attachment Organisation (and Disorganisation)? -- 5 Affectional Bonds and Attachment Figures -- 6 Is Attachment Theory Valid across Cultures? -- Part Two: Assessments1 of Attachment and Caregiving -- 7 Introduction -- 8 Assessments of Attachment -- 9 Assessments of Caregiving -- Part Three: Correlates of Attachment Organisation with Functioning -- 10 Which Domains of Functioning are Hypothesised to be Correlated with Attachment and What are the Possible Pathways of its Influence? -- 11 Evidence for Correlations between Attachment Security/ Insecurity and the Child's Functioning -- Part Four: What is Attachment Disorder? -- 12 Two Versions of Attachment Disorder -- 13 Research on Attachment Disorder -- 14 The Nature of Attachment Disorder -- Part Five: Attachment Theory-based Interventions (and Some that are Not) -- 15 Introduction -- 16 Evidence-based Interventions: Enhancing Caregiver Sensitivity -- 17 Evidence-based Interventions: Change of Caregiver -- 18 Interventions with No Evidence Base -- 19 Conclusions Regarding Interventions -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index -- About FOCUS.