This book explains the key concepts in attachment theory and describes how the main attachment types play out both in childhood and later life. Preface, Acknowledgements, Attachment Theory and Models and Measures, Attachment Behavior, Emotions and Their Regulation, The Internal Working Model, Patterns of Attachment, Attachment in Adulthood, Attachment Patterns and Types and Styles, Secure Attachments in Childhood, Avoidant Attachments in Childhood, Avoidant and Dismissing Attachments in Childhood, Ambivalent Attachments in Childhood, Anxious and Preoccupied Attachments in Childhood, Disorganized and Controlling Attachments in Childhood, Fearful Avoidant Attachments and Unresolved States of Mind in Childhood, Issues and Debates, Temperament and Disability and Gender: The Interaction of Nature and Nurture, Attachment Across the Lifecourse: Continuity and Discontinuity and Stability and Change, Epilogue, Further Reading, Bibliography, Author and Subject Index.