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Advantages
- KLAUS AND KENNEL'S (1976) FINDINGS THAT INFANTS WHO HAVE GREATER PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH THEIR MOTHERS GO ON TO DEVELOP STRONGER AND CLOSER ATTACHMENTS IS BACKED UP BY CHATEAU & WILBERG (1984), WHO FOUDN THE SAME RESULTS WITH MIDDLE-CLASS SWEDISH MOTHERS
- THE STUDY OF INFANT-CAREGIVER INTERACTIONS HAS SEEN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE RESEARCH METHODS SUCH AS ANALYSING VIDEOS OF INERACTIONS. THIS HAS ALLOWED PSYCHOLOGISTS TO GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING OF SUCH INTERACTIONS AND THEIR ROLE IN HELPING FORM ATTACHMENTS
- NON-VERBAL FORMS OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN INFANTS AND CAREGIVERS HAVE AN EVOLUTIONARY SURVIVAL VALUE, AS THEY HELP A CHILD TO BE NURTURED AND PROTECTED. INFANTS CAN EXPRESS THEIR NEEDS AND HAVE THEM MET. THE ATTACHMENT BOND SUCH COMMUNICATIONS HELP TO CREATE ALSO SERVES TO KEEP CLOSE PROXIMITY BETWEEN INFANT AND CAREGIVER
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Disadvantages
- INTERACTIONAL SYNCHRONY IS NOT FOUND IN ALL CULTURES. LE VINE ET AL (1994) REPORTED THAT KENYAN MOTHERS HAVE LITTLE SUCH INTERACTIONS WITH THEIR INFANTS, BUT FORM A HIGH AMOUNT OF SECURE ATTACHMENTS. THIS GOES AGAINST THE IDEA THAT INTERACTIONAL SYNCHRONY IS NECESSARY FOR HEALTHY ATTACHMENT DEVELOPMENT.
- CAREGIVERESE IS OFTEN USED BY ADULTS WITH ALL INFANTS, NOT JUST THE ONES THEY HAVE AN ATTACHMENT WITH. THEREFORE, ALTHOUGH IT SEEMS TO ASSIST COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ADULTS AND CHILDREN, IT IS POSSIBLE THAT IT DOES NOT SPECIFICALLY HELP FORM ATTACHMENTS
- INFANTS CANNOT SPEAK, SO INTERPRETING THEIR BEHAVIOUR IS PROBLEMATIC, MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO DRAW CONCLUSIONS ABOUT INFANT-CAREGIVER INTERACTIONS
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