Building secure attachment bonds with at-risk, insecure late adolescents and emerging adults: Young people’s perceptions of their care workers’ caregiving behaviors

Mael Virat and Caroline Dubreil

Children and Youth Services Review, 2020, vol. 109, issue C

Abstract: Many adolescents and emerging adults at risk of social exclusion have general insecure attachment styles. France’s specialized prevention system aims to help adolescents and emerging adults at great risk of social exclusion become more autonomous and independent by providing them with instrumental support and helping them attain a sense of affective security. The alliances between young people and their care workers are a crucial part of the social support they receive. From an attachment framework perspective, alliance and secure attachment bond are similar. The present study’s objective was to investigate how late adolescents and emerging adults with general insecure attachment styles (assessed using the Relationship Questionnaire) perceive the role of specialized prevention care workers in building an alliance or a secure attachment bond (assessed using 5 criteria: 1. Mourning after hypothetical loss/Separation protest/Persistence, 2. Proximity seeking, 3. Emotional tie, 4. Safe Haven, 5. Secure base).

Keywords: Autonomy; Attachment; Alliance; Caregiving behaviors; Care workers; Social marginalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104749

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