Scientific Report 2000-2005
The Scientific Report 2000-2005 is an extensive report, prepared for the national assessment of all education departments by the VSNU.
Scientific Report 2000-2005
The Scientific Report 2000-2005 is an extensive report, prepared for the national assessment of all education departments by the VSNU.
The VSNU (Association of Universities in The Netherlands) is the co-ordinating body of all Dutch universities and until recently co-ordinated five-yearly evaluations of all scientific disciplines in The Netherlands. The results of the national assessment of all education departments can be downloaded from the VSNU site.
Strategy and Policy
The present research programme Attachment Across The Life Span of the Centre for Child & Family Studies attempts to elucidate the pedagogically relevant antecedents as well as sequelae of attachments, with a special emphasis on the family as a primary socialisation context. In the current research programme these attachments and their cognitive representations are studied in a wide variety of settings, such as different cultures and ethnic groups, various family settings, day-care settings, and in various (clinical and non-clinical) populations.
The programme is based on two complementary approaches:
(1) Empirical studies of antecedents and sequelae of attachment in ‘normal’ and at risk children and their families;
(2) Theoretical and historical research of the foundations and methods of child and family research, including the meta-analytic synthesis of empirical findings, with a special emphasis on attachment.
The full scope and flavour of the programme can best be clarified by distinguishing a number of interconnected and partly overlapping research clusters. Six empirical clusters and two theoretical clusters are included in the programme.
Staff
- Dr M.J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
- Dr S.N. Brilleslijper-Kater
- Dr J.J.G.B. de Frankrijker (until April 2003)
- Prof.Dr F. Juffer
- Dr C.M. Koolstra (until October 2003)
- Prof.Dr P.M. Kroonenberg
- Dr J. Mesman (from September 2002)
- Dr P.J. Prinzie (from December 2003)
- Dr. G.J.J.M. Stams (from April 2001 until September 2002)
- Prof.Dr L.W.C. Tavecchio
- Prof.Dr R. van der Veer
- Prof.Dr M.H. van IJzendoorn
Key Publications
- Juffer, F., & Van IJzendoorn, M.H. (2005). Behavior problems and mental health referrals of international adoptees: A meta-analysis. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 293, 2501-2515.
- Bokhorst, C.L., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M.J., Fearon, P., Van IJzendoorn, M.H., Fonagy, P., & Schuengel, C. (2003). The importance of shared environment in mother-infant attachment security: A behavioral genetic study. Child Development, 74, 1769-1782
- Sagi-Schwartz, A., Van IJzendoorn, M.H., Grossmann, K.E., Joels, T., Grossmann, K., Scharf, M., Koren-Karie, N., & Alkalay, S. (2003). Child survivors - but not their children –suffer from traumatic Holocaust experiences. American Journal of Psychiatry, 160, 1086-1092.
[also published as ‘Les survivants de l’Holocauste et leurs enfants. Les enfants survivants –mais pas leurs enfants- souffrent d’expériences traumatiques liées à l’Holocauste’ in Devenir, 16(2), 77-107.] -
Bakermans-Kranenburg, M.J., Van IJzendoorn, M.H., & Juffer, F. (2003). Less is more: Meta-analyses of sensitivity and attachment interventions in early childhood. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 195-215.
[Also published as Bakermans-Kranenburg, M.J., van IJzendoorn M.H., & Juffer, F. (2005). Meno è megli:meta-analisi degli interventi precoci sulla sensibilità e sull’attaccamento. In: R. Cassibba & M.H. van IJzendoorn (Eds.), L’intervento clinico basato sull’attaccamento (pp.79-125). Bologna: Il Mulino.] - Stams, G.J.J.M., Juffer, F., & Van IJzendoorn, M.H. (2002). Maternal sensitivity, infant attachment, and temperament predict adjustment in middle childhood: The case of adopted children and their biologically unrelated parents. Developmental Psychology, 38, 806-821.
- Valsiner, J., & Van der Veer, R. (2000). The social mind. Development of the idea. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 488 pp.