This page includes relevant resources in the area of father-child attachment and relationships. These resources include training information, links to other organizations and networks interested in attachment theory as well as relevant literature and informative outlets.
Partner organizations and networks
The Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies (SEAS) is devoted to the dissemination and use of reliable and valid attachment measures for the betterment of research and clinical work aimed at understanding and promoting security in children, families, and society. The prevention of child abuse and respect for diversity in family forms are vital to the SEAS mission.
The Special Interest Research Group on Social Neuroscience of Human Attachment promotes a systematic social (cognitive affective) neuroscience approach to investigate the underlying biological and brain basis of human attachment. This goal reflects the overarching philosophy of social neuroscience that emerged as a novel integration of theories and experimental approaches from both neuroscience and psychology.
Relevant literature on fathers and father-child relationships
Meta-analyses
- Configurations of Mother-Child and Father-Child Attachment as Predictors of Internalizing and Externalizing Behavioral Problems: An Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta-Analysis, by Or Dagan and the Collaboration on Attachment to Multiple Parents and Outcomes Synthesis (CAMPOS)
- A meta‐analysis on observed paternal and maternal sensitivity, by Audrey-Ann Deneault, Natasha J. Cabrera, and Jean-François Bureau
- Child‐father attachment in early childhood and behavior problems: A meta‐analysis, by Audrey-Ann Deneault, Deneault, Marian J. Bakermans‐Kranenburg, Ashley M. Groh, Pasco R. M. Fearon, and Sheri Madigan
- Paternal sensitivity and children’s cognitive and socioemotional outcomes: A meta‐analytic review, by Michelle Rodrigues, Nina Sokolovic, Sheri Madigan, Yiqi Luo, Victoria Silva, Shruti Misra, Jennifer Jenkins
Special issues
- A family systems perspective on fathers and attachment, edited by Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan.
- Advancing research and measurement on fathering and children’s development, edited by Brenda L. Volling and Natasha J. Cabrera
- Early attachment networks to multiple caregivers, edited by
- Fathers from an attachment perspective, edited by Lieselotte Ahnert and Sarah J. Schoppe-Sullivan.
Theoretical pieces
- Fathers are parents, too! Widening the lens on parenting for children’s development, by Natasha J. Cabrera, Brenda L. Volling, and Rachel Barr
- Fathers matter from the start: The role of expectant fathers in child development, by Sofia I. Cardenas, Alyssa R. Morris, Narcis Marshall, Elizabeth C. Aviv, Magdalena Martínez García, Pia Sellery, Darby E. Saxbe
- Early attachment network to multiple caregivers: History, assessment models, and future research recommendations, by Or Dagan and Abraham Sagi-Schwartz
- Early attachment network with mother and father: An unsettled issue, by Or Dagan and Abraham Sagi-Schwartz
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