Attachment
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- Created on: 02-04-19 14:57
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- Essential bond
- Attachment
- Key concepts
- Affectionate bond
- Lasting tie to a particular person, is sought to maintain
- An attachment
- Feeling secure in the presence of an individual (they provide a safe space to explore the world)
- Attachment behaviours
- Behaviours which enable the child/adult to achieve and maintain proximity with the attached person
- Affectionate bond
- Bowlby's maternal deprivation hypothesis
- Bowlby
(1950) Absence of maternal care at critical period = negative outcomes
- Emotional psychopathy, delinquency, low IQ)
- Evaluation
- Support for biological basis, huge influence on government and social policy (day care reduced)
- Theory:restricted sample over simplification of the role of the mother
- Bowlby
(1950) Absence of maternal care at critical period = negative outcomes
- History
- Harlow’s
monkey demonstrated attachment is not just about physical nutrition – also
about comfort
- Attachment is innate, an important mechanism for survival (ensures we are cared for), critical periods in which attachment needs to take place
- Harlow’s
monkey demonstrated attachment is not just about physical nutrition – also
about comfort
- The Internal Working Model
- over-emphasis on role of mother
- Mary Ainsworth:The process of attachment
- Sensitive mothering
- More
sensitive, responsive & co-operative the mother is towards the child, the
more likely the child will develop a secure attachment
- Basis of self-worth and self confidence and later happiness
- More
sensitive, responsive & co-operative the mother is towards the child, the
more likely the child will develop a secure attachment
- Strange situation - assessment of infant's attachment style
- Based on the infant's behaviour when the parent returns
- A series of events in which the child is left for a short while by the mother
- Classification into 1/4 attachment categories
- Type A: Anxious/ Avoidant
- Type B: Secure
- Type C:Anxious Ambivalent
- Type D: Disorganised
- Sensitive mothering
- Separation anxiety and stranger anxiety
- measures aspects of the mother-child relationship not just child characteristics (Dunn, 1993)
- Phases
- Cross cultural research
- Key concepts
- Early bond between primary caregiver and child is critical to a child's emotional development
- Attachment
- Mary Ainsworth:The process of attachment
- Sensitive mothering
- More
sensitive, responsive & co-operative the mother is towards the child, the
more likely the child will develop a secure attachment
- Basis of self-worth and self confidence and later happiness
- More
sensitive, responsive & co-operative the mother is towards the child, the
more likely the child will develop a secure attachment
- Strange situation - assessment of infant's attachment style
- Based on the infant's behaviour when the parent returns
- A series of events in which the child is left for a short while by the mother
- Classification into 1/4 attachment categories
- Type A: Anxious/ Avoidant
- Type B: Secure
- Type C:Anxious Ambivalent
- Type D: Disorganised
- Sensitive mothering
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