Comparing Maslow's Attachment And Belonging

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She is not aware that her three little children need a healthy environment and proper interactions , that enable them to develop fully biologically and psychologically. If we have a closer look to all the stages portrayed by Maslow, we easily can say that Fiona didn't have the safety , the love and belonging or esteem necessary to become a responsible adult. . From the case description, it is clear that Fiona as a child, didn't receive the best care. She blames her mum for the hard times that she had to go through, declaring that her children enjoy a better lifestyle than she did as a child. Her early experiences, especially emotionally or affectively charged experiences with other humans, induce and organize the patterns of structural growth that result in the expanding functional …show more content…
They transmit the main values and the set of tools which are internalized by the children from the birth until adulthood.. At this stage some speculations about Fiona's attachment and parenting style can be made. She can passes the same learned pattern behaviour as she saw to the adults from her proximity, as she was a child. Having a complete understanding about these concepts, it can be useful to understand her reactions as a mum in the present. Attachment is a deep and enduring emotional bond that connects one person to another across time and space .(Ainsworth, 1973).In general, attachment theory is used to explain how the parent- -child interactions and relationship emerge and how subsequent development is influenced. Bowlby (1982) ,believed that attachment characterize human experience, from "the cradle to the grave." There were identified four types of attachment: secure attachment, insecure avoidant, insecure ambivalent, and insecure -disorganized. Each of them have got different characteristics, that that include distinctive types of

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