His particular field of research is in child psychopathology focussing on infant-parent relationships, attachment and its development in high-risk environments.
[2] In 2005 Zeanah was the joint author, with N. Boris, of AACAP's Practice Parameter for the assessment and treatment of reactive attachment disorder.
Larrieu, devised the New Orleans Intervention, a treatment and prevention program aimed at developmental and health needs of children under the age of five who have been maltreated and placed in foster care, with particular reference to their attachment status and needs.
The first new category is disorder of attachment, in which a young child has no preferred adult caregiver, parallel to RAD in its inhibited and disinhibited forms, as defined in DSM and ICD.
[8] This form of categorization may demonstrate more clinical accuracy overall than the current DSM and ICD classifications, but further research is required.