Browsing by Author "Niinivaara, Noora"

Objective The subject of the bachelor's thesis is the impact of early attachment-based interventions on attachment quality. The objective of the thesis is to investigate what is currently known about the effects of early interventions on children's attachment quality. Researches investigating interventions' efficacy to improve children's attachment quality which were published between 2006 and 2015 were selected to the thesis. Conclusions Based on researches the early attachment-based interventions can improve children's attachment quality. In majority of the researches intervention changed children's attachments more secure. Among different risk groups, for example maltreated children, the attachment quality improved with very different interventions. Weekly meetings at least at the beginning of the intervention was a feature common to all the interventions that improved children's attachment security. The length and timing of the intervention varied considerably instead. Comparison of the researches did not bring clarity why some interventions succeed and others do not. It seems that all the factors that improve children's attachment quality in interventions are not yet known.