Understanding Attachment: Parenting, Child Care, and Emotional Development
- J. Mercer
- Psychology
- 30 November 2005
Is maternal instinct fact or fiction? What special challenges do adoptive parents face? What kind of daycare is better, one with many caregivers or one with few? When is separation anxiety normal in…
Deliverance, demonic possession, and mental illness: some considerations for mental health professionals
- J. Mercer
- Psychology
- 18 June 2013
This paper outlines an unconventional treatment for mental illness, the exorcism or deliverance ritual used by Pentecostals and some other charismatic Christians. Deliverance beliefs and practices…
Attachment theory and its vicissitudes: Toward an updated theory
- J. Mercer
- Psychology
- 1 February 2011
This paper attempts first steps toward reworking Bowlby’s attachment theory and formulating an updated version. The paper examines 11 tenets of attachment theory as it was originally proposed by…
Examining Circle of Security™
- J. Mercer
- Psychology
- 1 May 2015
The Circle of Security™ interventions are psychosocial treatments intended to increase maternal sensitivity and thus child attachment security in infants and young children. A small number of…
Evidence of Potentially Harmful Psychological Treatments for Children and Adolescents
- J. Mercer
- Psychology
- 1 April 2017
Risks associated with PHTCs can be identified through close examination before children are exposed to them and harmed, and prevention or reduction of PHTC use may be possible.
Attachment therapy using deliberate restraint: an object lesson on the identification of unvalidated treatments.
- J. Mercer
- Psychology, MedicineJournal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric…
- 1 July 2001
To help clinicians understand the nature of attachment therapy and the ways in which it exemplifies unvalidated treatment approaches, an unusual and potentially dangerous intervention called attachment therapy is used for children and adolescence.
Attachment Therapy on Trial: The Torture and Death of Candace Newmaker
Candace Newmaker was an adopted girl whose mother felt the child suffered from an emotional disorder that prevented loving attachment. The mother sought attachment therapy-a fringe form of…
Examining DIR/Floortime™ as a Treatment for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
- J. Mercer
- Medicine
- 1 September 2017
DIR™ can be considered by social work practitioners as a possibility for evidence-based practice (EBP), but not as an evidence- based treatment (EBT).
Physiological Correlates of Painful Stimulation in Preterm Infants
- Sonia V. Gonsalves, J. Mercer
- MedicineThe Clinical Journal of Pain
- 1 June 1993
Objective:The study investigates the physiological responses of preterm infants to procedures that are routinely performed in intensive care nurseries. Changes in heart rate, respiration rate, and…
Examining Parental Alienation Treatments: Problems of Principles and Practices
- J. Mercer
- PsychologyChild and Adolescent Social Work Journal
- 15 August 2019
When children of high-conflict divorced parents prefer one parent and resist or refuse visitation with the other parent, some authors have spoken of this situation as parental alienation (PA). PA…
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