The Attachment Project

Attachment Style in Psychosis/Bipolar Disorder and Healthy Controls (REC reference number: 07/H0805)

We are studying the attachment style and childhood experiences of people who have a history of psychosis or bipolar disorder and people who have no such mental health histories. Attachment style is a term psychologists use to refer to the different ways people have learned to relate to the people they feel most close to, mainly from their experiences when they were young. We also want to understand whether there are any cultural differences in the attachment styles of people from African-Caribbean, White-British and other cultural backgrounds. We feel that the attachment and childhood experiences of people from other cultural backgrounds have not been studied enough and we would like to change this. A better understanding of these experiences may help us to improve the experience of the clinical services people receive when in need.

Online Version of the study:

You can take part in the online-web version of the study by using the following link:

http://is.gd/UNt1

Online Information Sheet:
http://www.bipolarlab.com/attachment/attachment-web-study

Offline Face to Face version of the study:

This local arm of the study has now been completed. Approximately 60 participants were recruited from the Maudsley NHS Trust (www.slam.nhs.uk) and the Greater London area.

If you wish to participate in any future studies please register your interest using our private contact form:

http://www.bipolarlab.com/contact

or even better complete another web study that will give us some initial but important diagnostic and demographic information. Remember to make a note that you wish to participate in other research projects as well.