Improving Quality of Day Care
The potential negative effects may be countered by recognising the role of day care workers as attahmnet figures. The Soho family Centre in London bases its day care programme on attachment theory. Each carer is assigned a maxiumum of three children and is paried with another carere who can step in if need be, thus ensuring close and consistent emotional relationships.
Institutional Care
Attachment Research recommends the provision of substitute emotional care to counter the effects of pysical seperation.
Adoption
Late adoptions used to be encouraged so the infants biological mother had time to nurse the baby but then the sensistive period for attachment had passed by the time an adoptions was made. Today, most babies are adopted within the first week of birth and research shows that adoptive mothers and children are just as securely attached as non-adoptive families.
Improving the Quality of Parenting
Parents who had poor attachment experienes themselves may need assistance to learn parenting skills. The 'Circle of Security' Programme teaches caregivers to respond more sensitivly.
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