Attachment disorder

Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is a social functioning disorder in children who fail to form a secure form of attachment with their primary caregiver () arguably as a result in pathogenic care (Corbin 2007). This diagnostic criteria of mental health illness was first brought to the fore in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders (DSM-III), by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1980 (Mikic and Terradas 2014). APA’s earlier assumptions…

Attachment can be described as the emotional bond that connects one person to another person. According to John Bowlby (1969) explained that it is a “lasting psychological connectedness between human beings”. Basically, attachment theory can be described on how a child interacts with the adults caring for him or her. If a child has a strong attachment, this means that the child can be confident that the caregiver or the adult will respond to the child's needs, an example would be if a child is…

information between emotion, well-being and happiness. In the video, a variety families are interviewed with their struggle of their child’s illness and how they move forward with their life. Infants form a bond with their parents and becomes an attachment. When children grow-up siblings and develop an emotional support system from their parents and…

mother leaves the room and enter a stranger. There are four type of attachment according to this experiment: Secure attachment, insecure attachment, insecure resistant and insecure disorganized. Secure attachment consist of when the child is stressed when his or her mother leaves, however become less stress when the mother returned. Out of all the participants, 66 percent of children fell under this category. Insecure attachment involves children that do not have any particular reaction when…

valuable and life changing knowledge to all parents and caregivers worldwide. It was previously thought that forming a close bond with an infant would lead them to be spoiled, but after much research, especially Harry Harlows, it was shown that attachment is actually extremely important for the development of the child. Harlow’s study on the infant monkeys has led to a lot of controversy and uproar. Many people believed that taking the monkeys away from their mothers at such a young age was…

Attachment is a desire for physical closeness with someone. Pertaining to attachment within infancy it has “been viewed as the foundation for future relationships, as the basis for confidence and curiosity as toddlers, and as important influences of self-concept.” as stated in our reading material. There are four different types of attachments we went over. Secure if the first type of attachment, about 65% of children in the U.S. are securely attached. This type of attachment is one which a…

Researchers, Carlson, Hostinar, Mliner, and Gunnar (2014) examined the formation of attachment in post-institutionalized (PI) infants and their adoptive parents following early social deprivation. The sample was comprised of 65 (PI) toddlers with their parents at 1-3 and 7-9 months post-adoption who were compared to 52 non-adopted (NA) infants. Each parent-child dyad were instructed to participate in a 1.5 hour laboratory sessions at 1-3 and 7-9 months post-adoption. The sessions were videotaped…

Attachment is commonly referred to as an important developmental attribute in younger infants and children . It is a crucial bond formed between an individual and their primary care giver and according to Bowlby, it is critically important to the child that this bond is formed ( Cassidy, 1999). Bowlby emphasized the importance of the primary caregivers and the impact that they have upon a child. For example, if an infant fails to form a secure, affectionate attachment with the mother or main…

Resolving attachment issues is an ongoing task. While there are several different tactics that can be taken to reverse the negative attachment issues, therapeutic interventions are a tactic that has a positive effective on attachment issues. Therapeutic intervention includes attachment therapy. Attachment-based interventions base its evidence strongly on the recognition of close caregiving relationships that have the tendency to go wrong and in essence a close caregiving relationship can correct…

What attachment is? Attachment is a firm connection or bond that exists between two people. Usually the attachment is emotional and in the case of attachment between an infant and caregiver, is necessary in the beginning for survival purposes. Attachment does not need to be mutual between two individuals and in fact can be one-sided. Why is it important? Attachment begins in newborn children so they can have all their needs met for survival. Babies are dependent on their parents for food,…