Children's Mental Health eReview

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The Children’s Mental Health eReview promotes use of research in practice and policy in order to improve services for children. Each eReview issue features (i) a review of published research in a specific area related to children’s mental health, and (ii) a collection of responses from different types of service providers regarding use of that research. The primary audience for the eReview is children’s mental health service providers, policy-makers and policy-implementers, but content is appropriate for parents and anyone working with children and families.

Editor: Cari Michaels
Please contact Cari at cmichael@umn.edu or 612-626-0520.

Issue 1 – August 2009
Attachment Relationships and Adoption Outcomes

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About this author: Miriam Steele, Ph.D., is the Assistant Director of Clinical Training at The New School for Social Research in New York. Dr. Steele originally trained as a child psychoanalyst at the Anna Freud Centre in London, England and received her Ph.D. from the Department of Psychology at University College London. Her interests include bridging the world of psychoanalytic thinking and clinical practice with contemporary research in child development, attachment research, bonds between parents and children, intergenerational consequences of attachment, and the impact of attachment in the fields of adoption and foster care. Visit her homepage.

Learn More

• View Miriam Steele’s power point presentation “Intergenerational Consequences of Attachment”.
• Visit the Anna Freud Centre, a children’s charity dedicated to the emotional well-being of children, to learn more about story stems and the Story Stem Standardisation Project.
• Visit the African American Adoption Agency.
• Visit MNADOPT.
• Visit the Permanent Recruitment Project.
• Search for University of Minnesota attachment resources in the CECMH resource database.
• View additional references related to attachment research.

The Child Welfare Series of the Children’s Mental Health eReview is supported in part by grant #439481, 000000013744 awarded to the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota. Grant funds are Title IV-E funds made available through the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Children and Family Services Division.