Attachment
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- Created on: 27-04-17 10:40
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- Attachment
- Attachment is important because...
- They provide comfort and security to babies
- This develops positive self-esteem and self-image
- They lead to happier and healthier attachments and relationships in the future
- Lack of attachment can lead to behavioural problems
- They provide comfort and security to babies
- Bowlby's theory
- Separation Anxiety
- An intense distress when separated from their mothers
- This does not disappear even when fed by another carer
- An intense distress when separated from their mothers
- Biologically programmed to form an attachment
- Because of this, infancy is a critical period for forming positive attachments
- Attachment evolves from the caregiver providing care, comfort and safety
- Critics of Bowlby
- Rutler - he said that privation is more damaging to a child
- This is when a child does not get the opportunity to form attachments with caregivers
- This therefore means it cannot be innate if some people are unable to form them
- This is when a child does not get the opportunity to form attachments with caregivers
- Rutler - he said that privation is more damaging to a child
- Separation Anxiety
- Schaffer and Emerson
- Schaffer and Emerson came up with the four stages that occur when forming attachments
- Babies are more likely to form attachments with caregivers who respond well to their signals
- They believed in quality of time not quantity of time
- The stages
- 0-3 months - most babies respond to any caregiver
- 3 months-7 months - begin to distinguish between their main caregiver and other people
- 7 months-9 months - one specific attachment, beginning of stranger anxiety and separation distress
- 9 months+ - multiple attachments, gain of independence
- Why might attachment not go smoothly?
- Disability - some parents find it harder to attach to a baby with a disability.
- Emotional Unavailability - could be from drug/alcohol abuse
- Foster Care/Adoption - children in the care system may experience inconsistency between carers
- Separation - due to illness or bereavement etc.
- Prematurity - incubators mean no skin-to-skin contact
- Post-natal Depression - may affect the mother's ability to interact and bond
- Attachment is important because...
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