Parenting Attachment Analysis

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According to Ensink, Normandin, Plamandon, Fonagy, and Berthelot (2016) found that RF is a parenting assessment tool to help parents to understand, how their attachment bonds are being develop or built with their children. There are different types of assessments to evaluate parents; one is called: The maternal sensitivity scale, it evaluates the infant during his 6 months during mother-child interactions. The disconnected and extremely insensitive scale, when the child was 16 months and the parenting scale or also known as the stranger situation at 16 months as well. Unfortunately, when parents are observed with their kids during this type of parenting assessments, they show a continue pattern of their own maltreated or secure attachment, they had with their parents in their early childhood. Mothers tent to use the same parenting style they had with their caregivers, towards their children when they become parents. …show more content…
But, mothers have the ability to switch her bad experiences or transformed them into good or acceptable experiences. Also, when mothers analyze her neglected environment she had, it is more possible that mothers can think or process “how it should it be or it should it be done”. These are the type of questions can help maltreated mothers to do changes or understand, how they can become a better parent. Also, their mentality can be changed to have positive thinking as; they don’t want to treat their own children as how they were treated. Having these internal fights can make neglected mothers to have better decisions towards building a secure attachment with their children. (Ensink, Normandin, Plamandon, Fonagy and Berthelot,

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