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Everett Waters is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States and focuses primarily on research within the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their academic work spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, social psychology, clinical psychology, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's research centers around topics such as attachment and relationship dynamics, family support in illness, identity, memory, and therapy, psychotherapy techniques and applications, counseling, therapy, and family dynamics, as well as intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving.

Recent publications by Everett Waters include the following papers:

  • Developmental change, bricolage, and how a lot of things develop: Mechanisms and changes in attachment across the lifespan (2024) published in Development and Psychopathology
  • Cornerstones and discourses in attachment study: celebrating the publication of a new landmark (2021) published in Attachment & Human Development
  • The secure base script and the task of caring for elderly parents: implications for attachment theory and clinical practice (2020) published through UNC Libraries, co-authored with Cory K. Chen

These works demonstrate engagement with both theoretical and applied aspects of attachment theory and caregiving, particularly focused on family dynamics and caregiving for elderly parents.

Frequent co-authors of Everett Waters include Theodore E. A. Waters, Dean Petters, Cory K. Chen, Harriet Salatas Waters, and Marilyn Hartman. These collaborations suggest a networked approach to research within their domains of expertise.

Their publications have appeared in journals and venues such as Development and Psychopathology, Attachment & Human Development, and UNC Libraries. This range of publication forums aligns with their cross-disciplinary interests bridging clinical psychology and social sciences.

Best Publications

  • Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation

    Mary D. Salter Ainsworth;Mary C. Blehar;Everett Waters;Sally N. Wall

  • Attachment as an Organizational Construct

    L. Alan Sroufe;Everett Waters

  • Attachment security in infancy and early adulthood: A twenty-year longitudinal study.

    Everett Waters;Susan Merrick;Dominique Treboux;Judith Crowell

  • Defining and Assessing Individual Differences in Attachment Relationships: Q-Methodology and the Organization of Behavior in Infancy and Early Childhood.

    Everett Waters;Kathleen E. Deane

  • Social Competence as a Developmental Construct

    Everett Waters;L.Alan Sroufe

  • Attachment, positive affect, and competence in the peer group: two studies in construct validation.

    E Waters;J Wippman;L A Sroufe

  • A secure base from which to explore close relationships.

    Everett Waters;E. Mark Cummings

  • Growing points of attachment theory and research

    I. Bretherton;E. Waters

  • Individual differences in infant-mother attachment at twelve and eighteen months: stability and change in families under stress.

    Brian E. Vaughn;Byron R. Egeland;L. Alan Sroufe;Everett Waters

  • The Reliability and Stability of Individual Differences in Infant-Mother Attachment

    Everett Waters

  • The attachment working models concept: among other things, we build script-like representations of secure base experiences.

    Harriet S. Waters;Everett Waters

  • Attachment From Infancy to Adulthood: The Major Longitudinal Studies

    Klaus E. Grossmann;Karin Grossmann;Everett Waters

  • The stability of attachment security from infancy to adolescence and early adulthood: general introduction.

    Everett Waters;Claire E. Hamilton;Nancy S. Weinfield

  • The ontogenesis of smiling and laughter: a perspective on the organization of development in infancy.

    L A Sroufe;E Waters

  • Security of Attachment and Preschool Friendships.

    Kathryn A. Park;Everett Waters

  • Attachment behavior at home and in the laboratory: Q-sort observations and strange situation classifications of one-year-olds.

    Brian E. Vaughn;Everett Waters

  • Stability of attachment representations: The transition to marriage

    Judith A. Crowell;Dominique Treboux;Everett Waters

  • Marital adjustment, parental disagreements about child rearing, and behavior problems in boys: Increasing the specificity of the marital assessment.

    Ernest N. Jouriles;Christopher M. Murphy;Annette M. Farris;David A. Smith

  • Acquisition of Emotion-Descriptive Language: Receptive and Productive Vocabulary Norms for Ages 18 Months to 6 Years.

    Doreen Ridgeway;Everett Waters;Stan A. Kuczaj

  • Disorganized attachment in infancy : a review of the phenomenon and its implications for clinicians and policy-makers

    Pehr Granqvist;L. Alan Sroufe;Mary Dozier;Erik Hesse

Frequent Co-Authors

L. Alan Sroufe
L. Alan Sroufe University of Minnesota
Brian E. Vaughn
Brian E. Vaughn Auburn University
John E. Richters
John E. Richters National Institutes of Health
Theodore P. Beauchaine
Theodore P. Beauchaine The Ohio State University
Inge Bretherton
Inge Bretherton University of Wisconsin–Madison
David J. Miklowitz
David J. Miklowitz University of California, Los Angeles
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn University College London
Byron Egeland
Byron Egeland University of Minnesota
Richard E. Heyman
Richard E. Heyman New York University
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences

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