Mikahere-Hall, AlayneWilson, DenisePou, Pita2026-05-062026-05-062025-10-19Perspectives in Infant Mental Health, ISSN: 2323-4822 (Print), World Association for Infant Mental Health, 2(33), 6-12.2323-4822http://hdl.handle.net/10292/21031Our research paper by Alayne Mikahere-Hall, Denise Wilson, and Pita Perehama Pou, sets the scene with a report of an investigation of Māori perspectives on secure attachment relationships, and the development of a culturally grounded framework for transforming infant mental health practice through Indigenous knowledge systems. The Tūhono framework is a transformative paradigm that that is playing an important role in influencing international Indigenous attachment scholarship.This is the Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Perspectives in Infant Mental Health by The World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH). The published version is available Free Access at (see Publisher's version).Indigenous MāoriAttachmentsInfant Mental HealthTūhono - First We Connect: Attachment Through Indigenous Kaupapa Māori Research Methodology - Transforming Infant Mental HealthJournal ArticleOpenAccess