Project Description
Considering Attachment Issues in Permanency Decisions: Q & A Session with Byron Egeland, Martha Farrell Erickson, &, Esther Wattenberg
Date Published: June 24, 1998
Protecting children from abuse and neglect confronts the Child Welfare field with daunting decisions that will have life-shaping consequences for both high risk families and their children. These decisions, to be made within strict time limits, deal with removing a child from the birth family, placement, reunification, adoption, guardianship, or long term foster care. The assessment of the child-parent interaction is one of the prime factors in arriving at these crucial decisions.
This questions and answer session with Dr. Byron Egeland, Martha Farrell Erickson, and Esther Wattenberg took place on Friday, June 24, 1998 under the auspice of the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare.
Professors Egeland and Erickson, along with their colleague Dr. Alan Sroufe, are nationally and internationally recognized for their extensive research and contributions to our understanding of the origin and development of various dimensions of the concept of parent-child attachment.
