Attachment theory was first described by John Bowlby, a psychiatrist who worked in a child guidance in London. His experience in treating emotionally disturbed children caused him to think of the importance of the relationship between the mother’s and the child and how the early infant separation from his mother would affect the child’s interpersonal relationship later in life and led him to formulate the attachment theory. He believed that the attachment of the infant to a person, caregiver, who is usually the mom is developed because of an evolutionary pressure, since the caregiver tend to provide security and safety to the child and hence enhances his chance of survival. Bowlby, proposed four phases of attachment. The first one is the pre-attachment
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The last phase is the fourth phase, from 2 years and beyond. In this phase, the mother becomes more independent because the child starts to accept the idea of separation since he starts to develop abstract thinking.
Mary Ainsworth, is a psychologist who studied the types of attachments behavior that children could have with their mothers through a procedure that she designed known as the strange situation paradigm. This procedure is divided into eight episodes each one last for 3 minutes. In the first episode, the mother was left with her child playing with toys in the presence of the examiner in one room. Then, the mother and the child. Then, mother, child and stranger. Then, child and stranger. Then, child and mother. Then, child alone. Then child and stranger. Then, child and mother. By observing the children’s behavior during each phase, but mainly during the reunion of the mother and the child, Ainsworth identified four different types of attachment. The first type is avoidant attachment in which the child did not cry when separated from the mother, instead he started to explore actively. Although it seems to be a positive sign, these children avoid the mother when she comes back or if she tries to approach them. This type
The last phase is the fourth phase, from 2 years and beyond. In this phase, the mother becomes more independent because the child starts to accept the idea of separation since he starts to develop abstract thinking.
Mary Ainsworth, is a psychologist who studied the types of attachments behavior that children could have with their mothers through a procedure that she designed known as the strange situation paradigm. This procedure is divided into eight episodes each one last for 3 minutes. In the first episode, the mother was left with her child playing with toys in the presence of the examiner in one room. Then, the mother and the child. Then, mother, child and stranger. Then, child and stranger. Then, child and mother. Then, child alone. Then child and stranger. Then, child and mother. By observing the children’s behavior during each phase, but mainly during the reunion of the mother and the child, Ainsworth identified four different types of attachment. The first type is avoidant attachment in which the child did not cry when separated from the mother, instead he started to explore actively. Although it seems to be a positive sign, these children avoid the mother when she comes back or if she tries to approach them. This type