Παρουσίαση και Περιγραφή της Συνέντευξης Παιδιών για τον Δεσμό (Child Attachment Interview, CAI)

The aim of the present paper is to introduce the Child Attachment Interview (Child Attachment Interview, CAI· Target, Fonagy, & Smhueli-Goetz, 2003) to Greek scientific audience. In particular, the paper aims to describe the construct, the coding and classification system, and the psychometric properties of the Child Attachment Interview. CAI is a semi-structured interview, which was adapted from the Adult Attachment Interview (George, Kaplan, & Main, 1996) to children aged 8 to 15 years old. The aim of the interview is to investigate children’s representations of their parents’ emotional availability and their parents’ ability to offer security and comfort to them when they have difficult times in their lives. The interview has also been used in Greek population in a comparative study between adopted and non-adopted children (Ntouma, Vorria, & Vairami, 2013).

Der familiäre Hintergrund „suchtbelastete Familie“ und dessen Auswirkung auf Mentalisierungsprozesse fremduntergebrachter Kinder

ZusammenfassungStudien über Bindung weisen auf Schwierigkeiten drogenabhängiger Eltern hinsichtlich ihrer Reaktion auf die emotionalen Signale der Kinder und die daraus abzuleitenden Verhaltensweisen hin. Dies lässt auf eine reduzierte Mentalisierungsfähigkeit schließen. Mentalisieren bedeutet die grundlegende menschliche Fähigkeit, Verhalten in Bezug auf Gedanken und Gefühle zu verstehen.Um diese Fähigkeit bei fremduntergebrachten Kinder (6–12 Jahre) aus suchtbelasteten Familien und deren aktuellen Bezugspersonen zu untersuchen, wurde eine auf dem Konzept der Mentalisierung basierende Gruppenintervention entwickelt, die das Wissen über Drogenabhängigkeit erweitern und soziale und affektive Fähigkeiten verbessern soll.Erhebungsinstrumente: Skala des Reflective Functioning (RF-Score) für das Adult Attachment Interview und für das Child Attachment Interview, Inventar der Sozialkompetenzen (ISK), Coloured Progressive Matrices (CPM), Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL/6-18R), „Patte-Noire“-Test, Einstellungen zum Drogenkonsum (EBDD Bewertungsinstrument).An Hand zweier Fallbeispiele aus dieser laufenden Pilotstudie, werden der diagnostische Prozess sowie beobachtbare und messbare Veränderungen über den Untersuchungszeitraum von mehr als 12 Monaten exemplarisch dargestellt und diskutiert.

Psychometric Properties of the Child Attachment Interview in Italian Context: A Focus on Normative and Specific Clinical Groups in School-Aged Children

While attachment assessments developed for infancy and adulthood are well established, no such gold standard measure exists for school years, where measures are not yet sufficiently robust. Nevertheless, the last decade has witnessed some progress in this field with the development of the Child Attachment Interview (CAI), a semistructured interview designed to access children’s mental representations of their attachment relationships. This study aimed to test the validity and reliability of the CAI for an Italian population, using a normative group and a clinical group of disruptive behavior disorder and somatic symptom disorder patients. A total sample of 311 Italian children (213 normative and 98 clinical) aged 8 to 15 years completed a battery of measures assessing attachment, verbal IQ, and symptomatology. The psychometric properties of the CAI alongside other children (Kerns Security Scale, Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment) and parents (Adult Attachment Interview) attachment measures in normative sample, as well as the distribution of attachment patterns in normative and clinical samples, were examined. The results revealed the CAI to have adequate interrater and test–retest reliability, as well as discriminant, and convergent validity. Significant differences in the CAI’s distribution of attachment patterns for normative and specific clinical groups were found. Taken together, the findings show that the CAI Italian version is a reliable and valid measure for assessing attachment in school years and beyond.