Welcome

The Circle of Security™ Project is an innovative, first-of-its-kind early intervention program designed to alter the developmental pathway of parents and their young children. Glen Cooper, Kent Hoffman, and Bert Powell from Marycliff Institute in Spokane, Washington and Robert Marvin from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia are currently designing this unique, evidence-based program. 

The Circle of Security™ Project integrates over fifty years of attachment research into a video-based intervention to strengthen parents’ ability to observe and improve their caregiving capacity. The use of a clear differential diagnosis for each parent/child dyad allows the clinician to focus on precise personal strengths and diagnostically significant (“linchpin”) struggles, rather than relying on a more traditional “one-size-fits-all” approach to intervention. Attachment theory, taught in this way, gives each parent an individualized parenting “road map,” a clear pathway to providing a secure relationship for her/his child.

We are pleased you have found your way to this introduction to our work. We want this material to be shared and utilized with parents and professionals around the globe. Much of what you find here is available for free downloading and immediate use. We only ask that you follow the parameters regarding the sharing of this material described on the download page. Thank you for your interest in attachment theory, affective neuroscience, and this particular approach to both.

We want to express our gratitude and indebtedness to the founders of attachment theory, John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth. Without their original thinking and research none of what you currently see before you would have been possible.