This interview has proven to be both reliable and valid and has been used in various studies with adults and adolescents. It has also been used in practice for parents and adolescents in residential care.

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-This interview helps to pick up on the quality and support that exist in a relationship.It can reveal attitudes towards fear, anger, closeness, and autonomy.

-The six attachment styles generated by this interview are: Secure, enmeshed, fearful, angry-dismissive, withdrawn, and disorganized (mixed style).

-Oftentimes in an analysis, the anxious styles (enmeshed and fearful) are combined and this is the same for the avoidant styles (angry-dismissive and withdrawn).


Benefits of The Attachment Style Interview for adults and adolescents 

Bifulco, A., Jacobs, C., Oskis, A., Bunn, A., & Spence, R. (2021). The Child Attachment Style Interview (Child-ASI) and depression: Preliminary findings. Educational and Child Psychology, 38(1), 62–74.

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