Enhancing Foster Care Relationships Through Attachment-Based Intervention: Protocol of SAFE FAMILY STUDY

The Circle of Security Parenting® (COS-P) program is an attachment-based intervention designed to enhance caregiver sensitivity, parental reflective functioning, and the quality of the child's attachment to their caregiver. This manualized intervention, with both educational and therapeutic components, empowers caregivers to better understand and respond to their child's needs, fostering secure attachment (22).

TAU typically involves home visits, educational and psychological support for foster carers and/or children in placement, and efforts to support and monitor contact between children and their birth families.