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The study of risk in attachment The study of productivity in the session according to clinical and empirical criteria The validation of the Therapeutic Cycles Model into Spanish language The study of the impact of interventions in the developmental process
The implementation of training programs for health care groups and mothers in the topic of attachment The Underlying structures of the mother-infant interaction at brief psychotherapeutic processes
The psychotherapeutic interviews had an effect on the attachment indicators: the subjects changed from the extreme points (insecure, avoidance and over-anxious) towards the middle range (secure attachment). In the last sessions both mother and baby are closer to the middle range (3: secure attachment), and all the attachment indicators are closer to the middle range in the last sessions both in the mother and the baby. All linguistic and non-verbal variables were correlated in a block by block basis and no significant correlations were found between the verbal measures in the mother and
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