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There are a variety of mainstream prevention programs and treatment approaches for attachment disorder, attachment problems and moods or behaviors considered to be potential problems within the context of attachment theory.

All such approaches for infants and younger children concentrate on increasing the responsiveness and sensitivity of the caregiver, or if that is not possible, changing the caregiver.

Such approaches include ' Watch, wait and wonder ,' manipulation of sensitive responsiveness, modified ' Interaction Guidance ,'.

' Preschool Parent Psychotherapy ,'.

Circle of Security ', Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up ( ABC ), the New Orleans Intervention, and Parent-Child psychotherapy.

' Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy ' ,, Other known treatment methods include Developmental, Individual-difference, Relationship-based therapy ( DIR ) ( also referred to as Floor Time ) by Stanley Greenspan, although DIR is primarily directed to treatment of pervasive developmental disorders Some of these approaches, such as that suggested by Dozier, consider the attachment status of the adult caregiver to play an important role in the development of the emotional connection between adult and child.

This includes foster parents, as children with poor attachment experiences often do not elicit appropriate caregiver responses from their attachment behaviors despite ' normative ' care.