A secure attachment bond ensures that a newborn will feel secure‚ understood‚ and be calm enough to experience optimal development of his or her nervous system. During the prenatal period‚ there are some form of attachment between the mother and fetus which includes listening to the heart beat of the fetus‚ feeling the kicks‚ and verbal and nonverbal communicating with the fetus. After childbirth‚ the bonding/ attachment between the parent and newborn is secured (Schenk & Kelly‚ 2005). The secured
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Researchers have begun to study the interaction between youth engagement and positive development . Youth engagement is defined as "meaningful participation and sustained involvement of a young person in an activity‚ with a focus outside of themselves " . For the purposes of this article‚ a community refers to the geographical boundaries established by municipalities ‚ a neighborhood‚ or a school environment encompassed within larger geographical boundaries. Past research on youth engagement has
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John Bowlby was a mid-twentieth-century English psychologist who was known all over the world for putting a scientific label to motherly love and its importance to a child. He called his evidences Attachment Theory. Bowlby’s thesis was that the success of all relationships in life is dependent on the success of the first one‚ specifically the bond between the infant or small child and his mother or primary guardian. As unemotional as the sound of the word “attachment” may sound‚ it defines a phenomenon
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Discuss the possible consequences of privation. Refer to the Romanian Orphan Studies in your answer. AO1 Privation is the failure to form an attachment‚ this may be due to extremely poor parenting or prolonged stays away from a potential attachment figure. Possible consequences of privation are intellectual retardation‚ anti-social behaviour in later life an inability to form relationships and lack of guilt. Rutter investigated the progress of 111 Romanian Orphans who were brought to Britain for
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UNRESOLVED GRIEF AND CONTINUING BONDS: AN ATTACHMENT PERSPECTIVE Much of the contemporary bereavement literature on the continuing bond to the deceased (CB) has emphasized its adaptiveness and given limited attention to when it may be maladaptive. The attachment literature on disorganized– unresolved attachment classification in relation to loss‚ or ‘‘unresolved loss‚’’ is informative in identifying CB expressions that are indicative of failure to integrate the death of a loved one. In this
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Running head: SPECIAL NEEDS: PARENTING A CHILD Special Needs: Parenting a Child with High Functioning Autism or Asperger Syndrome San Jose State University Introduction Parents who have children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) should define their parenting technique more so than parents of neurotypical children. Children with ASD have many different needs. For example‚ an ASD child has great difficulties with their social skills; this deficiency causes them not to have meaningful
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For this assignment‚ I am choosing to write about the Attachment Theory‚ because the concepts of this theory had captured my attention during class. The Attachment Theory was discovered by John Bowlby‚ which he had examined and analyzed the relationships between a child and their caregiver. Bowlby was attempting to understand the extreme distress from infants‚ who had been separated from their parents‚ which left the infants in discomfort. The most important stages of the Attachment Theory is during
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1. Identify and describe the parenting style of Precious’ mother? How did this parent style impact Precious in terms of her physical‚ cognitive‚ social and moral development? Provide very specific examples. Precious’ mother exhibit’s extremely authoritarian parenting style and some aspects of neglectful parenting. Her authoritarian parenting comes in the form of her need to always be in control and exerts that control on Precious. She always wants things to be done her way and does not give precious
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Outline and evaluate theories and or studies on the effects of early experience on adult relationships (8+16 marks) The quality and type of relationships differ between individuals:some are happy with long term-relationships‚ others prefer more temporary‚ less passionate relationships. Some individuals seem ’lucky in love’‚ while others seem to struggle to maintain a long term stable relationship. Bowlby (1951) believed that the type of quality of relationship that individuals have with their
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Outline and Evaluate research into Cultural Variation in attachment If attachment is a biological innate process‚ as Bowlby’s theory suggests‚ then secure attachment should be the best form for all humans regardless of variations in culture. However‚ there is much research against this statement‚ making us question whether attachment is or is not a biological innate process at all. Studies such as Ainsworth’s Uganda research support Bowlby’s theory. She observed how infants in Uganda‚ like in
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