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Volume 5, Issue 5(Suppl) J Child Adolesc Behav, an open access journal
ISSN: 2375-4494 Child Psychology 2017
September 28-29, 2017
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September 28-29, 2017 Berlin, Germany
23rd International Conference on
Adolescent Medicine &
Child Psychology
Ebru Ozlem Albayrak, J Child Adolesc Behav 2017, 5:5(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2375-4494-C1-001
Attachment-based framework in childhood anxiety disorders
In common to the development of anxiety problems, however, is an overgeneralization of predominantly hyper-activating
stress-regulatory strategies developed in an individual’s specific attachment relationship. The hallmarks of hyper-activation
strategies in response to stress and anxiety states are a low threshold for activation of the attachment system, a low threshold
for relative deactivation of brain areas involved in controlled, reflective social cognition, and mentalization as well as amygdala
hyper reactivity resulting in neuro-endocrinological hyper responsivity. Studies in neuroscience indicate that development
represents an experiential shaping of genetic potential and early experiences with the social environment are critical to the
maturation of brain tissue. In parallel advances in developmental psychology and child psychiatry, attachment theory as a
conception of the mother-infant relationship has become dominant model of human social emotional development available
to researchers and clinicians. Updated models of attachment theory that emphasize both emotional and social functions and
neurobiological structures now are interfacing with developmental neuroscience to generate a large body of interdisciplinary
studies. Modern attachment/regulation theory explains how external developmental and therapeutic attachment experiences
transformed into internal regulatory capacities. The scrutinized literature about neuroscience in terms of childhood anxiety
disorders and modern attachment theory was collected from different sources including PubMed. Finally, this literature
emphasizes the importance of considering an attachment-based framework in interventions for the treatment of childhood
anxiety disorders in particular in identifying the attachment relationship as a key target of clinical work, alone or in addition
to pharmacological or other treatment components.
Biography
Ebru OzlemAlbayrak has completed his PhD from Marmara University in Istanbul and Postdoctoral studies from Bakirköy Mental Training and Research Hospital in Istan-
bul. She is the Director of Ludens Psychiatry Clinic. She has published more than 10 papers in reputed journals especially on anxiety and mood disorders.
Ebru Ozlem Albayrak
Ludens Psychotherapy Clinic, Turkey