Disorganized Attachment Essay

An attachment is a special bond we have with the special people in our lives. These people make our day brighter when we see them. These special people may consist of the parents, grandparents, godparents, and even the caregiver. Babies begin to get attached to these special people at the age of six months. John Bowlby created the attachment theory and he believed that babies have an emotional bond with their caregivers (Berk & Meyers, 2016). There are four patterns of attachment development and they are: secure, insecure-avoidant, insecure-resistant, and disorganized attachment. A secure attachment is when parents are used a safe haven to the child. These children may or may not cry when the parent is no longer in the room. An insecure-avoidant attachment is when the child is not clingy and doesn’t cry when the parent leaves the room. These children usually avoid the parent and are usually independently. An insecure-resistant attachment is when the child is clingy and angry at the same time. These children tend to show resistive behavior. A disorganized attachment is when the child is totally confused with …show more content…
I personally think it is a useful technique but I also think there could be a different way to study each attachment pattern. Children who do not have secure attachments think differently from children who do. Therefore, they develop depression at an early age, think negatively of their parents or others, behave badly and don’t have much confidence in themselves. For example, there’s this boy by the name of Charles. He was placed in foster home after foster home because each family did not know how to deal with him. At the age of thirteen, he joined a gang and started selling drugs in order to fit in. The gang became his family and the drugs boosted his self-confidence. This only created a mask that Charles wore so that nobody can see how torn apart he was on the