Hi Geoff and all

I am thinking about an attachment projective or story completion test for
children that we used at the Anna Freud Centre - it will be mentioned in
the 2008 validation study that Yael Schmeuli Goetz, Mary Target and Peter
Fonagy published, as they used this to validate the the CAI.  I can find
it over the weekend, but it will be mentioned in that validation paper.

Warm regards
Karin

Le 2016-04-22 10:43, « list-manager@psychotherapyresearch.org on behalf of
Geoffrey Goodman » <list-manager@psychotherapyresearch.org on behalf of
Geoffrey.Goodman@liu.edu> a écrit :

>Hi Karin,
>
>These are great suggestions.  You mentioned an attachment picture
>completion task.  Are you thinking of the Adult Attachment Projective
>(Carol George's instrument) or something else?
>
>Geoff
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>Subject: Re: CaFTR A question about RF/attachment
>
>Dear Anna-Karin
>
>I think your idea to continue with the CAI is a good one.  You can rate
>the CAI for RF and you might want to focus specifically on the  questions
>regarding self descriptions as hopefully you will see a consolidation of
>self and development in mentalizing regarding self (especially if there
>is an intervention that helps the children to develop this specifically).
> I think it is tricky to rate attachment with an attachment interview for
>this population because the question is attachment to who?  I assume
>foster carers?  I would wonder whether an attachment picture completion
>type of test may not be better as it looks at representation that is not
>linked to a specific carer or parent (as in the CAI), so you would be
>able to see the change in inner representation more easily.  It also does
>not rely so much on language as the CAI, something that may be an issue
>in this population.
>
>To follow up on Geoff¹s suggestion regarding the RFQ, I attach the
>validation article. We have validated the RFQuestionnaire, but the this
>is really designed for adolescents and I think younger children may have
>difficulties with the questions.  Perhaps a brief version could work, but
>given that it is not validated for children, that would be a drawback.
>The correlation between RFQ and RF on the CAI is also relatively weak
>(.3) so it does not measure the same thing.
>
>As you will see from the attached articles Child RF correlates with
>psychopatho.  RFQ also does.  The question is really what would be best
>to measure change in representations and mentalizing abilities, isn¹t it.
> I would tend to go for the RF coding of the self representation
>questions in the CAI.  RF about others may also be interesting to look at
>but I am not sure that it will function as a measure of change for this
>population.
>
>I would be interest in hearing what Nick Midgley will pitch in as I think
>he is involved with studying a similar population in London.
>
>If you have more questions about measuring child and adolescent RF you
>are welcome to contact me and discuss backchannel.
>
>Warm regards
>Karin Ensink
>
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>Date : vendredi 22 avril 2016 04:18
>À :
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>Objet : 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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