The Myth of Attachment Theory: A Critical Understanding for Multicultural Societies

The Myth of Attachment Theory confronts the uncritical acceptance of attachment theory - challenging its scientific basis and questioning the relevance in our modern, superdiverse and multicultural society - and exploring the central concern of how children, and their way of forming relationships, differ from each other. In this book, Heidi Keller examines diverse multicultural societies, proposing that a single doctrine cannot best serve all children and families. Drawing on cultural, psychological and anthropological research, this challenging volume respects cultural diversity as the human condition and demonstrates how the wide heterogeneity of children's worlds must be taken seriously to avoid painful or unethical consequences that might result from the application of attachment theory in different fields. The book explores attachment theory as a scientific construct, deals with attachment theory as the foundation of early education, specifies the dimensions that need to be considered for a culturally conscious approach and, finally, approaches ethical problems which result from the universality claim of attachment theory in different areas. This book employs multiple and mixed methods, while also going beyond critical analysis of theory to offer insight into the implications of the unquestioning acceptance of this theory in such areas as childhood interventions, diagnosis of attachment security, international intervention programs and educational settings. This volume will be a crucial read for scholars and researchers in developmental, educational and clinical psychology, as well as educators, teachers-in-training and other professionals working with children and their families.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Keller, Heidi

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

The Myth of Attachment Theory confronts the uncritical acceptance of attachment theory – challenging its scientific basis and questioning the relevance in our modern, superdiverse and multicultural society – and exploring the central concern of how children, and their way of forming relationships, differ from each other. 
In this book, Heidi Keller examines diverse multicultural societies, proposing that a single doctrine cannot best serve all children and families. Drawing on cultural, psychological and anthropological research, this challenging volume respects cultural diversity as the human condition and demonstrates how the wide heterogeneity of children’s worlds must be taken seriously to avoid painful or unethical consequences that might result from the application of attachment theory in different fields. The book explores attachment theory as a scientific construct, deals with attachment theory as the foundation of early education, specifies the dimensions that need to be considered for a culturally conscious approach and, finally, approaches ethical problems which result from the universality claim of attachment theory in different areas. This book employs multiple and mixed methods, while also going beyond critical analysis of theory to offer insight into the implications of the unquestioning acceptance of this theory in such areas as childhood interventions, diagnosis of attachment security, international intervention programs and educational settings. 
This volume will be a crucial read for scholars and researchers in developmental, educational and clinical psychology, as well as educators, teachers-in-training and other professionals working with children and their families.

Cultures of Infancy

Cultures of Infancy presents the first systematic analysis of culturally informed developmental pathways, synthesizing evolutionary and cultural psychological perspectives for a broader understanding of human development. In this compelling book, author Heidi Keller utilizes ethnographic reports, as well as quantitative and qualitative analyses, to illustrate how humans resolve universal developmental tasks in particular sociodemographic contexts. These contexts are represented in cultural models, and three distinct models are addressed throughout the text: the model of independence with autonomy as developmental organizer; the model of interdependence with relatedness as the developmental organizer; and the model of autonomous relatedness representing particular mixtures of autonomy and relatedness. The book offers an empirical examination of the first integrative developmental task-relationship formation during the early months of life. Keller shows that early parenting experiences shape the basic foundation of the self within particular models of parenting that are influenced by culturally informed socialization goals. With distinct patterns of results the studies have revealed, Cultures of Infancy will help redefine developmental psychology as part of a culturally informed science based on evolutionary ground work. Scholars interested in a broad perspective on human development and culture will benefit from this pioneering volume.

Mental Health

Psychology Press

Cultures of Infancy (Psychology Press & Routledge Classic Editions)

The Classic Edition of Heidi Keller’s Cultures of Infancy, first published in 2007, includes a new introduction by the author, which describes for readers the original context of her work, how she has further developed her research and thinking, and the ongoing relevance of this volume in the context of future challenges for the field. 
In its original volume, Cultures of Infancy presented the first systematic analysis of culturally informed developmental pathways, synthesizing evolutionary and cultural psychological perspectives for a broader understanding of human development. In this compelling book, Heidi Keller utilizes ethnographic reports, as well as quantitative and qualitative analyses, to illustrate how humans resolve universal developmental tasks in particular sociodemographic contexts. These contexts are represented in cultural models, with three distinct models addressed throughout the text: the model of independence with autonomy as developmental organizer; the model of interdependence with relatedness as the developmental organizer; and the model of autonomous relatedness representing particular mixtures of autonomy and relatedness. The book offers an empirical examination of the first integrative developmental task during the early months of life―relationship formation. Keller shows that early parenting experiences shape the basic foundation of the self within particular models of parenting that are influenced by culturally informed socialization goals. With distinct patterns of results that the studies have revealed, Cultures of Infancy helps redefine developmental psychology as part of a culturally informed science based on evolutionary groundwork. 
Scholars interested in a broad perspective on human development and culture will benefit from this pioneering volume.

The overarching goal of the present study was to trace the development of mirror self-recognition (MSR), as an index oftoddlers’ sense of themselves and others as autonomous intentional agents, in different sociocultural environments.

The Development of Mirror Self-Recognition in Different Sociocultural Contexts (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (MONO))

Kartner, Joscha

Chaudhary, Nandita

Yovsi, Relindis

Parenting & Relationships

Wiley/Blackwell

Kultursensitive Fruhpadagogik (Entwicklung Und Bildung in Der Fruhen Kindheit) (German Edition)

Borke, Jorn

Kohlhammer Verlag

Die Kindheit wird von kulturellen Mustern geprägt. Nur wenn diese unterschiedlichen Muster akzeptiert werden, kann Integration gelingen. Heidi Keller und ihr Team haben zwei grundlegende, im ersten Lebensjahr angelegte Muster identifiziert und diese Erkenntnisse verständlich und praxisnah aufbereitet. Ziel der Autoren ist es, Kinderpsychotherapeuten, Kindergärtnerinnen, Erzieherinnen und Eltern für die eigene, kulturell geprägte Wahrnehmung sowie die Akzeptanz anderer kultureller Praktiken als gleichberechtigte Lebensformen zu sensibilisieren.

Kinderalltag: Kulturen der Kindheit und ihre Bedeutung für Bindung, Bildung und Erziehung (German Edition)

Springer

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The Myth of Attachment Theory: A Critical Understanding for Multicultural Societies

The Myth of Attachment Theory: A Critical Understanding for Multicultural Societies

Cultures of Infancy

Cultures of Infancy

Cultures of Infancy (Psychology Press & Routledge Classic Editions)

Cultures of Infancy (Psychology Press & Routledge Classic Editions)

The Development of Mirror Self-Recognition in Different Sociocultural Contexts (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (MONO))

Kultursensitive Fruhpadagogik (Entwicklung Und Bildung in Der Fruhen Kindheit) (German Edition)

Kinderalltag: Kulturen der Kindheit und ihre Bedeutung für Bindung, Bildung und Erziehung (German Edition)