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Anxious-Resistant Insecure Attachment Anxious-Resistant Insecure Attachment is a type of childhood insecure attachment style identified by Mary Ainsworth. According to Ainsworth, a…

Anxious-Avoidant Insecure Attachment Anxious-Avoidant Insecure Attachment is a type of childhood insecure attachment style identified by Mary Ainsworth. During The Strange Situation…

Anxiety Disorder The class of disorders containing any disorder in which anxiety is the primary feature or in which anxiety appears when…

Antisocial Personality This is a type of personality disorder in which the person has impulsivity, an inability to live by the rules,…

Antisocial Behavior Antisocial behavior is exhibited typically by people who are ʻantisocialʼ which is hostility toward society or the established values of…

Antisocial People who are antisocial tend to have and exhibit hostility toward society or to the established values of the society in…

Antecedent Conflict Antecedent conflict is the concept or theory that suggests events that happen early in life which are troubling, traumatic, or…

Anorexia Nervosa Anorexia nervosa (often referred to as just anorexia) is a very serious, pathological loss of appetite and self induced limiting…

Anna Freud Anna Freud (1895 – 1982) is one of the founders of psychoanalytic child psychology. She was influenced by her father,…

Angelmanʼs Syndrome Angelmanʼs Syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by the lack of chromosome 15, one of the 23 paired chromosomes, from…