Developmental Psychology Early Social Development: Attachment Attachment An emotional bond between two people. It is a two-way process that endures over time. It leads to certain behaviours such as clinging and proximity-seeking and serves the function of protecting the infant. Primary attachment figure The person who has formed the closest bond with a child‚ demonstrated by the intensity of the relationship. Usually the biological mother‚ but other people can fulfil
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Attachment and Divorce: FAMILY CONSEQUENCES Bowlby ’s‚ Ainsworth ’s‚ and Shaver ’s research created the understanding that infant styles create a disposition for later behavioral traits. More current research has questioned the significance of how the disruption of the attachment structure (such as in divorce) can affect children ’s behaviors throughout life. The research on this topic is contradictory and somewhat inconclusive‚ with research asserting that either attachment style or
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Attachment Theory The Attachment theory is focused on the relationships and bonds between people‚ particularly long-term relationships including those between a parent and child and between romantic partners. Attachment is an emotional bond to another person. Psychologist John Bowlby (1969‚ 1988) was the first attachment theorist‚ describing attachment as a "lasting psychological connectedness between human beings." Bowlby believed that the earliest bonds formed by children with their caregivers
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communicate needs. * Attachment – is defined as a person-specific relationship that is dominated by affectionate interchanges. Attachment initially grows out of many instances of a young infant experiencing her parent as reflecting her emotional state. As a child grows‚ other mutually satisfying interactions add to the parent-child attachment. 2. Why is the quality of an infant’s initial attachment important? The quality of an infant’s initial attachment is enormously important
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Attachment Theories: Bowlby and Winnicott I am particularly interested in attachment theories and ideas arising from objects theory namely Winnicott’s concepts of the transitional object and the “good enough mother”. Having two children‚ now aged 12 and 14 years old‚ I can see how the theories applied to them as babies and how it continues to be of significance now they are entering adolescence. It has also allowed me to understand relational patterns in my own life. I particularly like the recognition
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of infancy the influence of a positive attachment can enrich an infant’s behavioural development (Peterson 2010‚ pp.140-150). Erikson (cited in Peterson 2010‚ p.51) theorises that to mould a positive attachment an infant must achieve a balance of the psychosocial stage of ‘trust versus mistrust’. The achievement of this stage combined with the infant’s environment‚ social arena‚ and how infants see themselves as individuals is dependant on a positive attachment. With an understanding of Erikson’s theory
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VERGE 3 Rooney 1 Autism and Infant Attachment: A Review of the Literature Anna Rooney Psychology 340 Professor Pederson November 28‚ 2005 VERGE 3 A Review of the Literature Rooney 2 Even when Stephen Bohay was just a few months old‚ his parents knew there was something odd about him. Instead of developing the normal one consonant/one vowel sounds characteristic of three to eight month infants‚ Stephen remained silent and‚ according to his mother‚ never cuddled‚ never wanted
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are how attachment and early social relations influence one as they grow from infant into adulthood. Attachment formed during infancy can have a lasting impact on one’s life. It is a system of how humans regulate their distress and achieve security. During infancy the sensitive period they will perform proximity-seeking behavior such as follow‚ suck‚ and cling. Bowlby stated that interactions between caregivers and infants construct expectations about how relationships and attachments. This is
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to others effectively. Furthermore‚ describing the role of parents‚ what influences that role‚ parents as role models and how parents implement different parenting styles and their impact? As well as focusing on children’s first relationships‚ attachments and how they relate to others as they develop towards adulthood. The role of a parent is to care for a child’s biological needs‚ provide safe environment‚ to protect and manage discipline however reality is these are not always met. The parent role
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Attachments can often be disrupted between an infant and its primary caregiver and these particular children can find themselves growing up and developing outside the traditional family environment. Thus not forming attachments can have serious impacts on the development of the infant. Disruptions to attachments can take place due to the lack of physical and emotional attachment (Privation) and separation from the primary caregiver. In disruption of attachments there are long-term and short-term
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