id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-007563 Mark Cummings receives lifetime achievement award from American Psychological Association | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 939 26 31 News | Notre Dame News | “It is exciting to be able to use findings from my years of research to develop strategies to strengthen family relationships — and rewarding to see the programs we develop making a difference in families’ lives.” As an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University, Cummings was a student of psychologist Mary Ainsworth, who helped form the foundation of attachment theory—the concept that a strong emotional bond between mother and child is essential to development. cache/news-007563.html txt/news-007563.txt