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This is a semi-structured interview designed to assess attachment behaviour in children, administered by clinicians to caregivers. It covers 12 items, namely
- having a discriminated, preferred adult,
- seeking comfort when distressed,
- responding to comfort when offered,
- social and emotional reciprocity,
- emotional regulation,
- checking back after venturing away from the care giver,
- reticence with unfamiliar adults,
- willingness to go off with relative strangers,
- self endangering behavior,
- excessive clinging,
- vigilance/hypercompliance and role reversal.
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</references> Smyke,A. and Zeanah,C. (1999)'Disturbaces of Attachment Interview'. Available on the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry website at www.jaacap.com </ref>