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Undersocialized Conduct and Attachment Disorders: A child psychiatric team experience with a developmental and systems approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Christine Zsizsmann,
Chatra Weerasinghe and
Noelle Belcher
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Abstract

The paper deals mainly with work undertaken at Travancore Child and Family Centre and discusses the connection between attachment disorder and Undersocialized Conduct Disorder. Clinical examples illustrate the difficulties such children present to the caregivers and workers in the systems around the child. As these children generally fail to respond readily to therapies based on the child’s ability to form trusting relationships, management and treatment strategies which rely on careful assessment of the child’s attachment behaviour are described.

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Children Australia , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , 1991, pp. 8 - 14
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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