1.1 Welcome to this course

1.2 About this course

1.3 Moving through the course

1.4 A biological system

1.5 The aim of this course

1.6 Why think about attachment?

1.7 The Solihull Approach model: A reminder

1.8 References

2.1 Konrad Lorenz

2.2 Harry Harlow

2.3 John Bowlby

2.4 Attachment is a technical term

2.5 What is ‘attachment’?

3.1 Attachment behaviours

3.2 Primary Attachment figure

3.3 Bonding and attachment

3.4 Secure base and safe haven

3.5 More about a secure base and a safe haven

3.6 Threat

4.1 Babies are born to attach!

4.2 The first phase of attachment

4.3 The second phase of attachment

4.4 The third phase of attachment

4.5 The fourth phase of attachment

4.6 Recap of key concepts

4.7 Implications of the key concepts

5.1 A redefinition

5.2 The Strange Situation

5.3 Why this research was important

5.4 Types of attachment: Secure

5.5 Insecure: Anxious Ambivalent or Resistant

5.6 Insecure: Anxious Avoidant

5.7 Disorganised attachment

5.8 Coping with a Still Face

5.9 Children in the care system

5.10 ‘Attachment’: A field filled with confusion

5.11 Fright without solution

5.12 Which mirror?

5.13 A Trauma Bond

6.1 The Internal Working Model

6.2 How Internal Working Models develop

6.3 Behaviours within a category of attachment

6.4 Behaviour and attachment category

6.5 Children to adults

6.6 Theory to practice

6.7 Attachment and society

6.8 Summary so far

7.1 Developments in attachment theory

7.2 Not quite as clear cut

7.3 The Dynamic-Maturational Model

7.4 More about the Dynamic-Maturational Model

7.5 Dynamic Maturational Model: patterns change

7.6 Transgenerational transmission of attachment patterns

7.7 Change and evolution

7.8 Attachment and cognitive development

7.9 Summary

8.1 How do containment and reciprocity relate to attachment?

8.2 Containment

8.3 How containment helps with threat

8.4 Containment and secure attachment

8.5 Containment and Avoidant and Resistant attachment

8.6 Containment and Disorganised attachment

8.7 Containment: theory into practice

8.8 Reciprocity and attachment

8.9 Reciprocity and disorganised attachment

8.10 Rupture and repair is important

8.11 Reciprocity, attachment and postnatal depression

8.12 Secure attachment needs reciprocity

8.13 Singing and music promote attachment

8.14 Containment, reciprocity and the attachment

9.1 Why are we looking at epigenetics?

9.2 Introduction to epigenetics

9.3 Epigenetics, nature and nurture

9.4 Heritability of epigenetic changes

9.5 Epigenetics and attachment

9.6 Epigenetics: rats and attachment

9.7 The mechanism

9.8 Epigenetics: children and attachment

9.9 Epigenetic changes in trauma

9.10 Heritability of the effects of trauma

9.11 Attachment, trauma and epigenetics

9.12 Children, dandelions and orchids

9.13 Evidence for dandelions and orchids

9.14 Reflecting on epigenetics

10.1 Review

10.2 Congratulations!

10.3 Feedback questionnaire

10.4 Certificate and acknowledgements