@inbook{e571fdb2726844d3b4ad2c155df092dd,
title = "Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up: An Intervention for Parents at Risk of Maltreating Their Infants and Toddlers",
abstract = "When young children are abused or neglected, they have difficulty regulating behavior, physiology, and emotions. The parents of these children especially need to provide nurturing, synchronous, and non-frightening care. It is critical that parents behave in nurturing ways so that children develop secure, organized attachments, that they behave in contingent responsive ways to enhance the development of adequate regulatory capabilities, and that they avoid frightening behavior which undermines children{\textquoteright}s ability to develop organized attachments and regulatory capabilities. Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) was developed to target these three issues. This chapter provides an overview of ABC, examples of the process of treatment and a description of progress toward treatment success. A case is presented that documents the progression of a maltreated child in ABC, and its value as a mental health treatment is described.",
keywords = "Child Protective Service, Foster Child, Foster Parent, Parent Behavior, Video Clip",
author = "Mary Dozier and Elizabeth Meade and Kristin Bernard",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1007/978-94-007-7404-9\_4",
language = "English",
series = "Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "43--59",
booktitle = "Child Maltreatment",
}