Attachment in children

Attachment parenting is nurturing a strong, secure parent-child relationship by allowing the child to choose when to stop engaging in acts such as skin-to-skin contact, co-sleeping, babywearing, and breastfeeding (“Attachment Parenting Pros and Cons”). In recent news mothers have been degraded for breastfeeding in public or carrying older children. However, doing so creates a positive atmosphere for both mother and child. Parents should use the attachment parenting method because it affects a…

According to the Administration for Children and Families (2013), there are one million verified cases of childhood maltreatment reported annually in the United States. Of these cases, 79.5% were the result of neglect, emotional abuse, and abandonment. The significance of the early relationship between infants and their mothers on a child’s development has been documented extensively in the literature (Snyder, Shapiro, & Treleaven, 2012; Dozier, Lindhiem, & Ackerman, 2005). A mother’s ability…

Attachment is a term used to describe a unique emotional bond through which two people are connected. Typically this is descriptive of a child’s desire for the physical closeness and security it associates with its primary care giver. The Strange Situation procedure is an experiment which seeks to examine the quality of this relationship. In evaluating the effectiveness of the experiment, this essay will first look at the background to the Strange Situation and how initial results serve to…

A fundamental tenet of attachment theory is that the parent’s caregiving behaviour shapes a child’s internal working model of self and others. Children, who experience sensitive and consistent caregiving, develop secure working models of relationships, whereas children who experience rejecting or inconsistent relationships tend to develop insecure working models. According to Cassidy (1994) an important attribute of the secure model is the view that emotion expression is acceptable, that such…

focused on were parent’s emotional and physical maltreatment of their children. I also looked at the importance of attachment, the lifelong emotional bond between infants and their mothers or other caregivers formed during the first six months of life, and the different types of early parent-child attachment styles (Griggs, 2014, p. 298). There are four different attachment styles. The first, secure attachment, is the type of attachment indicated by the infant exploring freely in the presence…

other man or woman, attachment starts. However, the things that arise with the presence of an attachment are actually tough to understand, and this is the reason why attachment theorists emerged. John Bowlby changed into the primary psychologist who started an in depth study on attachment (emotional development). According to Bowlby's Attachment principle, attachment is a mental connectedness that occurs among people and lasts for an extended time period. To Bowlby, attachment is what continues…

Everyone has an attachment style from which they developed in the first two years of their life. This attachment style tends to stay consistent with each person throughout their lifetime and effects their social-emotional development, and thus relationships with other people. Attachment styles greatly affect the choice one makes in life partners, and how to parent their own children. It is important for everyone to gain insight on their own attachment style if they are to know their emotional…

for attachment theory. Bowbly (1959) explains the child’s emotional regulation and attachment to the primary caretaker, as a result of the caretaker’s continues responsiveness and a strategy of the child to keep the primary caretaker close to ensure survival during evolutionary times. It adapts to fit into the appropriate evolutionary niche. This internal working model creates the four main types of attachment: the insecure-avoidant (A) attachment, most prominently the secure (B) attachment,…

The attachment theory is well known to those in the field of psychology and child development. It was presented in the mid-to-late nineteen fifties by the world renown psychoanalyst John Bowlby, and later expanded upon with the help of psychologist Mary Ainsworth. The theory was considered revolutionary due to its shift in the focus of human development from intrapersonal conflicts to interpersonal relations to explain psychosocial health and behaviors. Bowlby focused most of his theory on the…

The article, “A Secure Base for Babies: Applying Attachment Concepts to the Infant Care Setting” written by Helen Raikes, talks about the importance and how crucial secure attachment is to not only a child’s parents, but to also their teachers as well. In the article, Raikes brings up many important arguments that clearly prove the necessity of having secure attachments in a child’s life to effectively develop emotionally, physically and psychologically in order to become functioning members of…