Failure to form attachment - Other notes

Attachment Disorder

• Recognised as a distint psychiatric condition and included in the DSM.
• It is when children experience disruptions of early attachments that leads to affecting their social and emotional development.

Children with this Attachment Disorder have:

• No preferred attachment figure.
• An inability to interact and relate to others that is evident before 5 years old.
• Experience of severe neglect or frequent change of caregivers.

Two types of Attachment Disorder:

• Reactive or inhibited = shy and withdrawn, unable to cope with most social situations.
• Disinhibited = over-friendly and attention seeking.

EVALUATION NOTES

Turner and Lloyd (1995)

Privation is only one factor

• Some research suggests: children who do not form a…