Psychologist Mary Ainworth developed a theory on the importance of the varying types of attachment between caregiver and child through experimental research in 1969. Ainworth created an assessment technique known as the Strange Situation Classification or SSC. The Strange Situation Classification was tested on infants, (mostly one to two year olds) and it demonstrated the responses of infants when separated from their mothers. The experiment was held in a room with a mother, baby and a complete stranger. They are eight steps of procedure, each lasting three minutes.
First, the baby was shown its mother accompanied by random stranger for about two minutes. Once the baby had a short look, the baby was left alone in the room with its mother for 3 minutes. Soon after, the stranger walked in and stayed with the mother and baby for another 3 minutes. The fourth trial, the mother leaves the infant alone with the complete stranger. After every episode, results are …show more content…
Staying hopeful throughout the process will definitely encourage your child to open up, because it indeed starts with the parent. A few tips before seeking professional help would be: creating a daily schedule can comfort, spending time alone with child will increase its attention on parent, and setting rules, for example, allowing the child to know what is expected, what is allowed and what isn’t allowed would create a balanced relationship between caregiver and child. If the tips fail, a great alternation would be seeking professional help. There are several different types of therapy for the attachment styles, for example family therapy. Whether the unhealthy relationship was developed as a child or adult, it can be reverted into a loving and unbreakable attachment. The biggest necessity for a healthy relationship is always have patience when working with the
First, the baby was shown its mother accompanied by random stranger for about two minutes. Once the baby had a short look, the baby was left alone in the room with its mother for 3 minutes. Soon after, the stranger walked in and stayed with the mother and baby for another 3 minutes. The fourth trial, the mother leaves the infant alone with the complete stranger. After every episode, results are …show more content…
Staying hopeful throughout the process will definitely encourage your child to open up, because it indeed starts with the parent. A few tips before seeking professional help would be: creating a daily schedule can comfort, spending time alone with child will increase its attention on parent, and setting rules, for example, allowing the child to know what is expected, what is allowed and what isn’t allowed would create a balanced relationship between caregiver and child. If the tips fail, a great alternation would be seeking professional help. There are several different types of therapy for the attachment styles, for example family therapy. Whether the unhealthy relationship was developed as a child or adult, it can be reverted into a loving and unbreakable attachment. The biggest necessity for a healthy relationship is always have patience when working with the