Attachment disorder

The concept of foster care and adoption can be traced as far back as the Old Testament. The book of Esther tells the story of a young girl who was taken in, after her parents died, by her cousin and became queen of Persia. Although Esther’s story has a happy ending, many of the children in today’s foster care system do not. The teenagers who are aging out of foster care has the steepest hill to climb. The system is set up to be a temporary solution until they can locate a permanent home for the…

“With regard to satisfaction with birth parent contact as related to attachment relationships, adoptees’ greater feelings of closeness to adoptive mothers in emerging adulthood were significantly associated with satisfaction with birth father contact” (Farr) creating a meaningful relationship between the family. When the child…

In the United States almost 397,122 children are living without permanent families in the foster care system. About 101,666 of these children are eligible for adoption, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, nearly thirty-two percent of these children will have to wait over three years in foster care before getting adopted. However, the statistics for this many children clearly show the ineligibility of adoption or lack of criteria meeting families and also has a real impact…

Foster families should develop a healthy attachment with these children, the attachment relationship varies depending on the approach and behavior of the foster parents, it can either be secure or insecure. When provided enough care, understanding, health care and protection the children develop a secure attachment with their foster families. But in the absence of protection, care and understanding the children grow more insecure…

Policy Implication Over the last century the United States and other countries have developed many acts and policies regarding the protection of children. The policies that have been established in the past, has been reformed in order to ensure the safety of the children in this nation. Throughout the years there has been many positives of the child welfare reform, however there has been many negatives from it as well; in many cases the positives have impacted the U.S. but it’s the negatives…

studentfirstproject.org, healthy attachment is a “reciprocal, enduring emotional connection between a child and his/her primary caregiver that begins when the child is in utero”. Furthermore, many things impact whether this attachment is healthy or unhealthy. Some psychosocial factors that could impact or influence attachment include parenting style, caregiver sensitivity, temperament of the child, and certain medical conditions. Parenting style influences attachment because it dictates how the…

least three reasons why attachment theory and research has special significance for helping professionals. To begin, attachment theory plays a big part in psychology today. I believe attachment theory and research is significant, because it helps professionals be more knowledgeable of the client developmental stages. In addition, it helps professionals be aware of different attachment styles between the child and caregiver. Research helps professionals understand how attachment affects the…

research done on attachment styles, however specific associations are still among many studies. Explored here is a more in depth look at children and adolescents with insecure attachment styles and the prevalence of a corresponding conduct disorder. Three different empirical articles have been chose to discuss this concerning issue for child and adolescent psychopathology. Each author attempts to uncover the remarkable relationships that humans possess to carry out feelings of attachment that…

Failing to diagnose and treat those individuals with substance use disorders who have also gone through some form of trauma early in life perpetuates the cycle of addiction. Attachment theory, first hypothesized by Bowlby over five decades ago, has seen resurgence in recent years (De Rick, Vanheule; Verhaeghe, 2009). Significant aspects of attachment theory have reinforced the idea that the relationship between the infant and the primary caregiver has influential…

Attachment is an emotional bond to a certain individual. There is also secure attachment which is a strong, positive, and emotional bond with an individual who provides comfort and a sense of security. A person with secure attachment are more likely to go to that person for comfort, problems, or when they are distressed. Someone also might be very unhappy about separation. In psychoanalytic and behavioral theories attachment is when the mother fed her baby and satisfied the infant’s hunger drive…