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dc.relation.isnodouble62942*
dc.contributor.authorSeah, Elizabeth Jane Izett
dc.contributor.supervisorProf. Jan Piek
dc.contributor.supervisorDr Lynn Priddis
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T09:51:50Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T09:51:50Z
dc.date.created2015-10-30T06:45:23Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/629
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This study investigated attachment patterns and mentalising capacity of adolescent girls with eating disorders, their mother’s reflective capacity, and family functioning. Girls with eating disorders scored higher rates of insecure attachment, lower attachment coherence and higher hypermentalising than non-clinical girls. Although mothers’ reflective functioning did not differ between groups, a proportion of clinical mothers scored very low reflective functioning compared to controls. Clinical families presented with higher depression, anxiety, communication difficulties and conflict.

dc.languageen
dc.publisherCurtin University
dc.titlePatterns of attachment and reflective functioning in families of adolescents with eating disorders
dc.typeThesis
dcterms.educationLevelPhD
curtin.departmentSchool of Psychology & Speech Pathology
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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