A research classification within Attachment Theory given to about 10% of children who have not developed an organised pattern of attachment due to abuse and/or neglect from unpredictable, rejecting caregivers who the child experiences as frightening. The child reacts with very controlling behavior and/or behavioral, emotional, and cognitive dysregulated, impulsive, and non-reflective functioning.
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