Attachment disorder

The construct “object” has been used to explain relationships toward or with people throughout various psychoanalytic theories. Particularly, the theories Object Relations theory and Classical Drive theory. Object Relations theory addresses an object as a part of a relationship or attunement with other people, particularly parental relationships. According to Melanie Klein, an object is a person or a role of a person in a particular person’s life. This person generally serves as a template in…

Attachment plays a large role in relationships. Attachment is the relationship that one makes with a parent, sibling, friend, or partner. Tai Mendenhall defines attachment as “a special emotional relationship that involves an exchange of comfort, care, and pleasure”. Attachment is established in early childhood between a child and their caregiver which usually is their parents. A child’s attachment style usually suggests the type of attachment style someone will have as an adult. Adult…

Introduction This paper focuses on the perception of authority and how that perception influences obedience. I will explore how the development of a child’s belief in the legitimacy of their parent’s authority relates to the child’s obedience to external authoritative figures. Throughout this paper the phrase external authority will be defined as any authoritative figure (figure of authority/ authoritative figure) outside of the child’s home. First, I will explore how a child’s opinion of the…

sought out to create an emotional attachment with a partner. The attachment theory has different styles that can help couples to create the love which relationships and marriage are based on today. It is necessary that partners learn their own and their partners' attachment styles in order to create a better understanding of each other through communication that maintain benefits to the relationship and the individuals in it. By knowing their individual attachment style it…

Erikson’s initial stage, Trust vs. Mistrust, approximately begin to happen from birth to one year. Erikson thought that an infant whose immediate needs are met, such as being comforted when comfort is needed by the infants will develop trust. He also said that in order to learn to discriminate between people who are honest and dishonest, mistrust is necessary. At this stage, should it happen that mistrust prevails over trust, the child will be withdrawn, suspious and will be devoid of…

Journal Activity 2.4: Risk and resilience factors for child mental health There are many resources that are uncovered through a basic internet search for the terms ‘child mental health risk factors’ and ‘child mental health resilience’. Some of the sources are scholarly and peer reviewed while others are more popular and mainstream in nature. In order to enhance my previous learning in the course, I selected to review scholarly resources from a number of research journals as well as…

Parents play an important role in children’s lives not just for meeting needs for survival but for social and emotional development. (Farrington-Flint, Pg74) Research showed that babies are born with skills to interact and can recognise the mothers voice at birth (Grossmann, 2010). Early relationships have an impact on the children’s social development because the infant will learn skills such as sharing, respect and turn taking, children will need these skills to enable them to effectively…

Tavistock Clinic and the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.” (Goleman. D, 1990). John Bowlby’s Theory of Attachment Volume 1 was published in 1969 and Volume 2 was published in 1973 and these detailed his theory of attachment in a child’s early years. He decided to pursue this theory as he was influenced by Konrad Lorenz’s work on attachment and his study on built in or innate attachment (1935). In this study Lorenz showed that goslings “followed the first moving…

and Laura never got an opportunity to share father-daughter moment with her father while growing up. Based on Laura’s history, it is obvious she is missing attachment as a child from her parents. To help Laura with this situation, I will introduce and apply “Attachment Theory” as model to design appropriate solution to this issue. Attachment theory is an in depth emotional bond between one person and another. John…

Attachment is known as a deep social-emotional bond established between a child and his or her primary caretaker, such as a mother, father, or grandparent (Kail, 2012, p 331). The process of attachment development starts from birth to six to eight weeks as an infant and is known as preattachment. This is where the infant can recognize their mother from smell and sound. This is the first step in forming an attachment by the infants’ behaviors and their responses they evoke in adults create an…