Attachment in children

In this poster I will be explaining how a child develops emotionally from the prenatal stage up to 2 years. Children do not automatically recognise what their emotions are or how to control them- it is something that they need to learn. Through the different stages children experience different emotions, and will have different ways to express them. Children will gain emotional intelligence from first-hand experiences, along with their expression and understanding of emotions (Olde, 2013). There…

Attachment Theory Intro Since the 1950’s John Bowlby’s seminal work on attachment theory has been developed and expanded greatly in both it’s original scientific merits as well as its applicability to clinical work (Schore 2007). Originally developed during a period of behaviorism today’s modern attachment theory is integral to clinicians conducting psychoanalysis, learning psychopathology, or using the biopsychosocial model in general (Schore 2007). History John Bowlby is known as the “father…

purpose of educating children about child abuse and how to prevent it. According to Sanders (2004) the three main goals of KOS was to “teach the children safe practices; encourage victims of abuse to come forward and to raise awareness within the community of the need to keep children safe”. The program has been split into age appropriate modules and for the purposes of this essay we will be looking at the modules for years’ 4-8. The learning outcome for the program is for children to gain…

Mary Dinsmore Ainsworth, an American-Canadian developmental psychologist known for her work on the development of attachment theory, is credited with the design of the strange situation procedure to analyze the psychological attachment between a child and its mother or caregiver which was used to advance the theory which many still look at today. A bit of history on Mary helps us understand her and the understanding she had on the subject. Ainsworth was born in Glendale, Ohio and raised in…

relationship between attachment-based parenting measures and social learning theory-based measures in determining a child’s security of attachment to their care giver and social acceptance amongst their peers. The nature of the research conducted in this article was micro and exploratory because the researchers where looking to find a relationship between the two theories and children’s attachment style and social acceptance. The independent variables within this research are attachment theory…

other bodily functions which as … is attachment. Attachment is the development of a close and emotional relationship between a caregiver and child which allows further future relationships to be formed (Cassidy and Shaver, 2008) As characterised by responses to the Strange Situations (a test where the child 's reaction to a stranger is measure, both with and without the caregiver present), attachment develops in two different ways (Ainsworth, 1989). Children who are soothed by their caregiver…

insecure-resistant/ambivalent as well. It all depends on her mood or how she is feeling that day. Times when she is happy she is the secure attachment. It all depends on her mood, where she is, and whose she 's with. Most of the time she is the secure attachment. When she is in a bad mood or wants only 'mom ' she is in the insecure-resistant/ambivalent attachment. I observed her playing in the front room and outside. Inside she plays with her toys and will come up to me or her mom and give us…

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 their…

studentfirstproject.org, healthy attachment is a “reciprocal, enduring emotional connection between a child and his/her primary caregiver that begins when the child is in utero”. Furthermore, many things impact whether this attachment is healthy or unhealthy. Some psychosocial factors that could impact or influence attachment include parenting style, caregiver sensitivity, temperament of the child, and certain medical conditions. Parenting style influences attachment because it dictates how the…

Clemenson University peaks interest into the institution as the caregiver. Institutional care is an option to millions of children for which they are responsible for as the number of youth without a parental caregiver continues to increase in countries where resources are lacking (Huynh, 2014). Substandard care can hinder a child’s development creating developmental delays, attachment disorders, brain atrophy, aggressive behavior and emotional and physical health problems (Huynh, 2014). Yet it…