Disrupted attachment is not covered under ICD-10 and DSM criteria, and results from an abrupt separation or loss of a familiar caregiver to whom attachment has developed.

Perhaps it was the probability that he would never see her again that made the abrupt separation so poignant.

The woman, a full-time housewife, said the girl ate and slept well and had shown no visible problems as a result of her abrupt separation from the Reiters.

His investigation focused on infants who had experienced abrupt, long-term separation from the familiar caregiver, as, for instance, when the mother was sent to prison.

This theory contrast to Oscar Handlin theory of uprootdeness, that argues that the abrupt separation from home forces new immigrants to forge entirely separate communities.

This type of problem, which is not covered under other approaches to disordered attachment, results from an abrupt separation or loss of a familiar caregiver to whom attachment has developed.

He had many reasons for the choice, not the least of which was his full realization of what anguish an abrupt separation would cause his mother, coming as it must so soon after her bereavement.

Critics of the decision cited, instead, the emotional harm done to the child by the abrupt separation from his mother.

It is hard to estimate how much business the hospital would lose in an abrupt separation from Oxford, which accounts for 8 percent of its revenue.

They might be from different worlds, but they were united in their abrupt separation from all that they had known before.