Theories Of Attachment

What is Attachment? 2 Attachment is a connection between a caregiver and a child, a unique bond with two special people that can comfort one another a healthy lifestyle to help maintain and build a strong relationship between an infant and a caregiver. Attachment is characterized by specific behaviors in children, such as seeking proximity with the attachment figure when upset or threatened (Bowlby, 1969). This protects a child from experiencing separation anxiety and depression. Now thinking for a minute, about the importance for parents to have an emotional bond with their children, why and how can they give them the support they need,

3 My first article I will be talking about is Attachment Theory. This article will explain you the different types of concepts of this theory. John Bowlby is a key theorist who discovered Attachment; he 's known as the behaviorist of children. John Bowlby (1907-1990) was a psychanalyst (like Freud) and believed that mental health and behavioral problems could be attributed to early childhood. His whole focus was on children how their reaction was to everything; he observed their knowledge and found out what can he do next and how can be specifically. John 's research was really interesting however because he had the patience to learn how each child learned in their own way and the uniqueness of each one in their own ways. How did they grow up with it and what made them fall in them from the word Attachment. His main points are that a child has an innate need to attach to one main attachment figure, a child should receive the same amount of love that is giving to everyone else, if you don 't show a certain care to the child they may show consequences; aggressiveness and depression also Roberton and Bowlby believed that short term separation leads to distress stages are protest, despair and detachment. John Bowlby 's stages are secure, avoidant, ambivalent and disorganized. These stages are relevant to the children 's behavior because, you can tell these reactions here nowadays; children have moods that will show you how they are feeling. And his last main point is the child 's attachment relationship with their primary caregiver leads to development of an internal working model (Bowlby, 1996) as in understanding the child 's feeling and making them feel really close.. Bowlby (1969, 1988) also postulated that the fear of strangers represents an important survival mechanism, built in by nature. Babies are born with the tendency to display certain innate behaviors (called social releasers) which help ensure proximity and contact with the mother or attachment figure