The attachment theory is defined as a model used to describe the long-term and short term interpersonal relationships between humans. I am going to be discussing how abuse and neglect will affect a child’s emotional security, safety, and health. A child’s brain can be affected by an absence of attachment to an adult. These negative effects can a harm them sociality, mentally and physically. Analysis and Integration
Point 1: Effects on Education In class we watched a clip of a child’s brain that has had proper care and a clip a child’s a brain that has been neglected and/or abused. The brain activity was significantly different and proved that a child that has been neglected has a brain that develops much slower than a child …show more content…
Hurting a child has been said to make the child want to avoid their parent more than being close to them. In the article More Harm than Good written by Elizabeth T Gershoff she interviews a few children who talk about how they would rather “run away from their parents because they are being like mean and it hurts a lot” and “ feeling like they don’t like their parents anymore” (Gershoff, 2010) The use of physical punishment is linked to negative parent-child relationships more than it is linked to positive parents-child relationships. Not only were children more likely to view their parents in a negative way, but they also judged their parents as being “less emotionally available” (Gershoff, 2010) Children will want to avoid painful experiences making them start to associate their parents with pain, making them avoid them as well. As a child starts to avoid their parents more and more their feelings of closeness with disappear and will cause the child to be less inclined to notice a parent’s positive interaction with them. The more and more physical abuse the child receives as a form of punishment the more and more a child will start to forget that the parent has positive interactions with …show more content…
It isn’t something that you think of often when it wasn’t a reality in your life. I feel like it seems about animalistic to have your instincts kick that your survival is more important than your education, and that you need to focus more on being happy at home than you need to focus on your studies. The more I read about it though the more it made sense that when you aren’t getting the proper nourishment and nurture at home, then yeah, school is not going to be very important to you. This than makes a lot of sense as to why a child who has been neglected has lower brain function, and scores and lower on standardized tests compared to a child that gets the appropriate nurture and treatment at home. The last part that I talked about was when it comes to physical abuse and this makes sense to me that child wouldn’t want to be around someone that hurts them on a regular basis. It makes sense and I think it is really unfortunate that a child would ever feel this way toward a parent. Parents are there to be your rock and to feel the need to avoid them for your own personally safety must be the worst feeling in the
Point 1: Effects on Education In class we watched a clip of a child’s brain that has had proper care and a clip a child’s a brain that has been neglected and/or abused. The brain activity was significantly different and proved that a child that has been neglected has a brain that develops much slower than a child …show more content…
Hurting a child has been said to make the child want to avoid their parent more than being close to them. In the article More Harm than Good written by Elizabeth T Gershoff she interviews a few children who talk about how they would rather “run away from their parents because they are being like mean and it hurts a lot” and “ feeling like they don’t like their parents anymore” (Gershoff, 2010) The use of physical punishment is linked to negative parent-child relationships more than it is linked to positive parents-child relationships. Not only were children more likely to view their parents in a negative way, but they also judged their parents as being “less emotionally available” (Gershoff, 2010) Children will want to avoid painful experiences making them start to associate their parents with pain, making them avoid them as well. As a child starts to avoid their parents more and more their feelings of closeness with disappear and will cause the child to be less inclined to notice a parent’s positive interaction with them. The more and more physical abuse the child receives as a form of punishment the more and more a child will start to forget that the parent has positive interactions with …show more content…
It isn’t something that you think of often when it wasn’t a reality in your life. I feel like it seems about animalistic to have your instincts kick that your survival is more important than your education, and that you need to focus more on being happy at home than you need to focus on your studies. The more I read about it though the more it made sense that when you aren’t getting the proper nourishment and nurture at home, then yeah, school is not going to be very important to you. This than makes a lot of sense as to why a child who has been neglected has lower brain function, and scores and lower on standardized tests compared to a child that gets the appropriate nurture and treatment at home. The last part that I talked about was when it comes to physical abuse and this makes sense to me that child wouldn’t want to be around someone that hurts them on a regular basis. It makes sense and I think it is really unfortunate that a child would ever feel this way toward a parent. Parents are there to be your rock and to feel the need to avoid them for your own personally safety must be the worst feeling in the