Attachment in children

understand the possible causes of the effects and behaviors of the child that embeds into their personality traits during child development. Although, there are infinite numbers of case research on various causes in emotional disturbances found in children, the investigation derived from the actual case is typically understudied. Most research tends to focus primarily on the ideal of social support system. However, researchers such as Ethier’s 2004, found evidence of a few case studies that…

interaction with adults to encourage talking, when they reach that stage of development; their interaction with other children their age and to give them the opportunity to explore a new environment that they are not familiar to, (Duncan, 2003). Child care is important as children are introduced at a young age to many different cultures and languages and these are the ways that children learn their much needed vocabulary and interaction skills which they will need as they embark on school.…

Although every child’s needs are different, each child must have his basic needs met. The rare disorder known as reactive attachment disorder (RAD) occurs when a young child does not establish a good relationship with his/her parents or caregivers, usually because the emotional and physical needs are not being met. However, not every neglected child develops RAD. Also, some children may have some of the same symptoms but have another disorder. The child with the symptoms of RAD needs to be…

Ainsworth believed in the Attachment Theory. This theory looks at the child bonds with their parents, caregivers and other grown-ups. It acknowledged these relationships and gave an understanding to how it affects a child or young person. While encountering changes is their lives, children and young people require the help of the grown-ups around them to have the ability to manage the circumstance. It is vital to have and preserve positive relationships with children and young people…

Children Psychology is a topic in psychology that studies how children perform certain behaviors. It examines how a certain behavior that a child performs can influence a certain behavior as the child grows and becomes an adult. Also, there are many different factors that a child experiences growing up that can influence these adult behaviors. Many experiments have been performed to prove these different variables as true. These may be variables such as money, social, culture, age, location, and…

4.4. Social Learning Theory of Aggression The Greek adage `Demo quod non habet’ which means that `one cannot give what one does not have, implies that one’s behaviour, actions and emotion expressed emerges from a learned act, consciously or unconsciously. The social learning theory of behaviour was developed by Albert Bandura, which implies the idea that behaviour is a learning process (Hyde-Nolan & Juliao, 2012; Wallace & Robertson, 2011). One of the philosophical ideas that support social…

This theory outlines that children and adults learn by observing the behavior of others. His well-known ‘Bobo doll experiment’, in which the experiment involved subjecting young children to two differing adult reactions; an aggressive action and a non-aggressive action. After watching the adult's different behaviors, the children would then be placed in a room without the adult and were watched to uncover whether they would mimic…

General Category of Service User Mr Mooney is an 83 year old man with underlying health issues and has recently moved into a new flat having previously lived with his daughter. I will consider relevant and applicable theories and legislation in order to reflect on the issues which are relevant to older people from the information given. However, as a social worker it is important that we see Mr Mooney as a unique individual with his own life history (Thompson, 2012), these stages of development…

exhibits many signs of mental well-being. For example, he was able to keep a job and form a loving relationship with his girlfriend. How is this possible after having faced such terrible abuse for years? Various different psychological theories say that children need to form close personal relationships in order to grow into mentally healthy adults. The films depiction of Anthwone makes it exceedingly clear that he did not possess loving relationships with adults. Nonetheless, he did form close…

This is important because observing how the whole family interacts aids in noticing some signs that are not displayed during an individual assessment. This might include, poor communication between the parents and children or noticing how supportive the parents are with their children which might not be shown during their individual assessment. An important thing to remember during a family or child assessment, however, is that the family are the expert in their situation (Teater, 2015)…