Attachment in children

responsible to the children for their future lifetimes (Ha & Tam, 2011). The children have to learn about their position by understanding their behavior. The first born child holds the dominant position in the family. They are perceived to be more conscientious than their younger siblings (Paulhus, Trapnell, & Chen, 1999). For the youngest sibling, they are believed to be the most creative, emotional, extraverted, disobedient, irresponsible and talkative (Herrera, 2003). The later born children…

Virginia Satir has developed a definition to the way and how a person will cope with a problem known as the survival stance. The survival stance is the natural reaction that a person will use in order to modify the realities that is connected themselves, others, and/or the context. The four stances for survival are placating, blaming, being super-reasonable, and being irrelevant and it is through these stances that a person’s life from childhood will help to determine that a person will have an…

However, parents often reject, neglect, or even dominate their children, this situation can lead to the child's feelings of basic hostility toward their parents. Children who repress their feelings of hostility, eventually they will develop feelings of unsafe, which lead to pervasive sense of apprehension or known as basic anxiety. People are able to protect themselves…

ERIKSONS STAGES OF PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT The Eight Erikson’s Stage of Development Trust vs Mistrust is the first stage of development that mainly focuses on infants’ learning to develop a bond with their parents according to the types of caregiving ability that the baby receives from birth to 12 months old. A consistent and reliable care will create trust between the parents and the infant but if the child receives harsh and a threatening feeling, it eventually leads to the development of…

Parents’ child rearing styles are one of the world constructs, which express the emotional and general relationships between parents and children (Baumrind, as cited in Bolghan-Abadi et al., 2011). According to Baumrind (1967), there are mainly three types of parenting styles that parents involve in- 1) Authoritarian style where the authoritarian parent attempts to shape, control, and evaluate…

Growing up with distant parents can develop positive and negative effects on developing children. Children who grow up with a distant relationship with parents are more likely to develop self-confidence issues and seek acceptance in other. The most common people these children will go to seek acceptances will be from their peers. Through peer acceptances, children will gain self-confidence. Peer acceptances has a positive effect on adolescents. It makes them feel safe and can promote better…

Attachment Attachment is the key to building a relationship. Infants who cannot speak communicate with their caregiver through different behaviors such as but not limited to crying, smiling, clinging, moving etc. Its amazing how they are “pre-wired” to behave certain way in order to built a relationship with their caregiver. Relationship is built by reciprocal responses between an adult and an infant. Infants will do what they are capable of. For the newborns it is crying or not crying. They…

others do not?” (Garmezy, 1973). Upon discovering a number of risk and protective factors, research quickly shifted towards a broader focus of general adaptation and resiliency in the face of adverse situations. Of particular interest were maltreated children and those suffering from ruinous illnesses and diseases, such as cancer (Fritz, 2015). What underlying factors result in a child maintaining a positive outlook on life despite suffering such pain? The construct of psychological resilience…

In Mayan culture, the families value interpersonal relationships, as the children never sleep alone (Morelli et al., 1992, p.612). In general, “most Mayan babies [go] to sleep when their parents did or [fall] asleep in the midst of ongoing social activity, which it is the social time where the whole family goes to sleep together…

Hazan and Shaver published a study that took the idea of romantic relationships and redefined them as attachment relationships.…