This volume provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary and multinational view of attachment theory as it applies to family systems, and family systems theory as it extends attachment theory.

• Explores if and how attachment theory can be truly systemic, and what a systemic attachment theory would entail
• Addresses potential clinical implications and applications of attachment and family systems theories
• Raises cultural challenges to integrative theoretical development
• Challenges developmental and family systems scientists and practitioners to begin an active exchange

Beatrice L. Wood, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo, and President of the Board of Directors for the journal Family Process. Her research focuses on family relational processes as they relate to child disorder and well being.