Psychological Attachment Analysis

Attachment can be defined a number of ways and interpreted in many more ways. In general Psychology, the term attachment is used in reference to the relationship between an infant and its parents or caregiver. In layman’s terms, it would be described as how the infant or toddler reacts when its parents have left the room and how it is comforted, whether it is self-comfort or it cries until its parents return. In the African American household, knowledge of the different types of attachment are nonexistent. Infants and toddlers that have the tendency to cry whenever its parents leave the room are perceived to be spoiled, “ruined, and need to be exposed to other people besides its parents. Bessel Van Der Kolk refers to attachment and the effects …show more content…
Although in Psychology, the term is used in reference to the relationship between an infant and its parents or caregiver, households would describe the term as how the infant or toddler reacts when its parents have left the room and how it is comforted, whether it is self-comfort or it cries until its parents return. Van Der Kolk thoroughly defined the topic while providing real life scenarios or instances to allow his readers to better grasp the topic. His discussion allowed my mind to wonder and caused me to think of things in reference to how would the things he discussed in his book, would differ from then until now. I feel that this point could open up more doors as far as research because I, myself, would like to know exactly the percentage of children that have behavior issues that are because they do not have any form of attachment to their parents. I know that the topic has more than likely been researched before but in today’s society I feel that it would be an interesting study because not only do children act out but they have the tendency to use other things to self soothe such as social media, electronic devices and in some cases, drugs. So, I feel it would be interesting to see the effect of having neglecting parents in a day and age where social media and the internet rules the