In March 2023, we launched the first English promotion of the online training course in the use of the Baby Distress Alarm scale (ADBB), with learners coming from England, Russia and Nepal.During the training, there was a lot of discussion during the virtual...
This is a question that we are regularly asked in training sessions.It is true that Professor Antoine Guedeney, author of the ADBB Scale, is a leading figure in attachment theory in France and in the world. It is also not uncommon that in the in-depth training of the...
From screening to dynamic assessment. The Alarm Distress Baby Scale (ADBB) is a tool for detecting and assessing chronic relational withdrawal. Initially designed as a screening tool, it can be used in a long-term clinical setting as part of a dynamic assessment...
Link to full paper : THE ALARM DISTRESS BABY SCALE IN A LONGITUDINAL PORTUGUESE STUDY REANALYZED WITH ATTACHMENT DATA ABSTRACT:The relationship established between the infant and the caregiver is central to both parents and infants, and provides one of the...
Link to full paper : SOCIAL WITHDRAWAL BEHAVIOR IN INSTITUTIONALIZED TODDLERS: INDIVIDUAL, EARLY FAMILY AND INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS ABSTRACT:Eighty-five Portuguese children, aged 12 to 30 months, placed in residential institutions were assessed to investigate the...
Link to full paper : CORRELATES OF CHANGE IN POSTINSTITUTIONALIZED INFANTS’ SUSTAINED SOCIAL WITHDRAWAL BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING ADOPTION ABSTRACT:Infants adopted from institutions experience inadequate care prior to adoption and are therefore expected to show elevated...
Link to full paper : IMPACT OF A RANDOMIZED HOME-VISITING TRIAL ON INFANT SOCIAL WITHDRAWAL IN THE CAPEDP PREVENTION STUDY ABSTRACT:The goal of this study was to measure the effects of a home-based, preventive intervention on children’s sustained social withdrawal...