title: The Adult Attachment Projective Picture System: integrating attachment into clinical assessment.
abstract: This article summarizes the development and validation of the Adult Attachment Projective System (AAP), a measure we developed from the Bowlby-Ainsworth developmental tradition to assess adult attachment status. The AAP has demonstrated excellent concurrent validity with the Adult Attachment Interview (George, Kaplan, & Main, 1984/1985/1996; Main & Goldwyn, 1985-1994; Main, Goldwyn, & Hesse, 2003), interjudge reliability, and test-retest reliability, with no effects of verbal intelligence or social desirability. The AAP coding and classification system and application in clinical and community samples are summarized. Finally, we introduce the 3 other articles that are part of this Special Section and discuss the use of the AAP in therapeutic assessment and treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Mills College, Oakland, CA 94613, USA. george@mills.edu
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: George
authors.forename: Malcolm
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: West
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D009769:Object Attachment; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012928:Social Desirability