Hi Anna-Karin,

Carla Sharp and Peter Fonagy have a self-report measure of RF for adolescents that might save you some time, although I don't know about the convergent validity with the AAI or CAI RF ratings.  The authors were recently revising the instrument, so I don't know if the revised version is ready yet.  I have the instrument, but I don't have permission to distribute it.  You might want to contact Carla or Peter for a copy.

Geoff

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Subject: CaFTR A question about RF/attachment

Hello!

We would like to consult with you on the question of useful instruments for rating attachment and change of it in children and adolescents in foster homes. We are planning a study with the aim to assess change in attachment security among children and adolescents (about 8 to 18 years old) who are treated in foster homes in Sweden. Some of them stay for a year or two before they move back to their biological parents, some stay until they start living on their own. We have some clinical experience of the Child Attachment Interview. This might be a feasible instrument but as it is quite time-consuming we want to know what alternatives there are before staring the study.

We also intend to study the mental representations of the foster parents of their relationship to the child. We have some experience of rating RF on PDI but have not used it for attachment-to-the-child ratings. We also considered WMCI but that seems to be made for smaller children.

We also intend to rate RF on both foster families and the children/adolescents, by using the PDI for the parents and probably the CAI for the children (although we have used AAI for RF ratings down to about 14 years. Do you have any good ideas about this?

Some of our questions when selecting instruments are whether we can use the same instruments over this long age span (8-18), how sensitive the instruments are to change, how often they can be used (preferably once a year in order to get information from those who leave after a short time).

We hope that you have some ideas about these questions.

Thank you in advance

Anna-Karin Åkerman
Rolf Holmqvist

Linköping University

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