About Us
OUR MISSION
To promote, at an international level, high quality research related to the scientific study of Emotion and Attachment (including psychology, psychiatry, social work, educational science, biology, neurosciences, pedagogy, and family studies), including dissemination through our official scientific journal Attachment and Human Development.
To spread awareness and use of reliable and valid research methods and intervention tools so as to encourage the implementation of efficacious research, as well as clinical and practical work in the field of attachment.
To encourage contacts between psychology research and social reality, by cooperating with similar organizations and associations and by supporting welfare policies which favor security of attachment in children, families and society as a whole.
To foster the dissemination of knowledge and stimulating collaboration by organizing meetings, conferences and seminars having the purpose of increasing knowledge and research inherent to attachment. In particular, promoting and sponsoring the biennial International Attachment Conferences as well as the Attachment Pre-Conference workshops at the biennial meetings of the Society Research in Child Development (SRCD)
To cooperate, in all necessary ways and forms, with institutional bodies responsible for addressing and financing scientific research based on attachment theory, promoting public policy and practice serving the needs of children, parents, educational facilities and families.
To support the training of young researchers, by putting in place both suitable training opportunities and incentives toward success in their careers.
Our Executive Board
Meet the Board Members
Dr. Marlene M. Moretti, Ph.D., R. Psych., is the Canada Research Chair in Youth Clinical Psychological Science and a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Simon Fraser University, and a Registered ...
Marlene M. Moretti
President
Dr. Nicola Carone, Associate Professor of Dynamic Psychology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. His research focuses on the psychodynamics of family bonds across different family forms ...
Nicola Carone
Vice-President and Treasurer
Dr Pascal Vrticka is an Associate Professor at the University of Essex and Principal Investigator of the Social Neuroscience of Human Attachment (SoNeAt) Lab. He serves as Coordinating Board President ...
Pascal Vrticka
Scientific Secretary
Professor Pasco Fearon is Director of the Centre for Family Research. He is a developmental and clinical psychologist doing world-leading research on child development and children’s mental health. Pasco’s research ...
Pasco Fearon
Past President
David Oppenheim, Ph.D. is Professor and former Chair in the Department of Psychology and a member of the Center for the Study of Child Development at the University of Haifa, ...
David Oppenheim
Executive Board Member
Catherine Mbagaya is a researcher in Maseno University, Kenya where she also teaches and mentors postgraduate in the Department of Psychology. Her research focus is in parenting, early childhood development ...
Catherine Mbagaya
Executive Board Member
Brian Allen, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist, Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry in the Penn State College of Medicine, and core faculty in the Child Maltreatment Solutions Network at Penn ...
Brian Allen
Executive Board Member
Lilian Ayiro is a lecturer at Moi University in Kenya, where she teaches and supervises graduate students. Her research focuses on parenting, attachment, disability and child development. Her interest lies ...
Lilian Ayiro
Associate Board Member
Professor at the University of San Sebastián, Chile. Director of the Doctorate in Psychology and Mental Health. Principal investigator in several projects on attachment, parenting, and alternative care in childhood. ...
Rodrigo A. Cárcamo
Associate Board Member
Dr. Audrey-Ann Deneault is an Assistant Professor in the Département de psychologie at the Université de Montréal. Her research examines how familial and environmental factors influence child and youth mental ...
Audrey-Ann Deneault
Associate Board Member
Board Members
2020-2024
Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, the Netherlands
Nicola Carone, Vice-President and Treasurer, Italy
Pasco Fearon, President, United Kingdom
Marlene Moretti, Canada
Carlo Schuengel, the Netherlands
David Oppenheim, Secretary, Israel
Howard Steele, Past President, USA
Brian Allen, Associate Member, USA
Pascal Vrticka, Associate Member, UK
2016-2019
Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, the Netherlands
Lavinia Barone, Vice-President and Treasurer, Italy
Pasco Fearon, President, United Kingdom
Marlene Moretti, Canada
Carlo Schuengel, the Netherlands
Mario Mikulincer, Secretary, Israel
Howard Steele, Past President, USA
2012-2015
Lavinia Barone, Vice-President and Treasurer, Italy
Jude Cassidy, USA
Pasco Fearon, United Kingdom
Mario Mikulincer, Secretary, Israel
Howard Steele, President, USA
Marinus van IJzendoorn, the Netherlands
Honorary Members
Sir Richard Bowlby, UK
David Pederson, Canada
Inge Bretherton, USA
Abraham Sagi-Schwartz, Israel
Anders Broberg, Sweden
Phil Shaver, USA
Nino Dazzi, Italy
Alan Sroufe, USA
Karin Grossmann, Germany
June Sroufe, USA
Klaus Grossmann, Germany
Joan Stevenson Hinde, UK
Erik Hesse, USA
Everett Waters, USA
Robert Hinde, UK
Giovanni Liotti, Italy
Mary Main, USA
Robert Marvin, USA
Colin Murray Parkes, UK