Early Childhood Attachment Report

Most of the housewives nowadays would likely to seek for a job in order to earn a living for the whole family, and it leads to a result of keeping infants at day care services. However, some critics argue about the sense of insecurity may be formed due to day care which may affect children’s mental well-being negatively, and directly links to the attachment theory. Bowlby (1953) define attachment theory as a long-lasting affectionate psychological bond in human beings, especially strong in the attachment between infant and mother. It is significant that the attachment and the day care would seriously affect the development of children. Therefore, this essay is aimed to illustrate how the attachment theory relates to the early day care, and whether it brings positive or negative influences to the infants and what would be resulted at the end of the effects. First, the stages in attachment theory would be stated, then, explain the linking of day care and attachment through the insecure stage

Ms. D truly believes in the information written in Marilyn Watson’s book, Learning to Trust: Transforming Difficult Elementary Classrooms through developmental discipline. Ms. D precisely exemplifies the practice of attachment theory, “looking past misbehavior to see that every child has a need to belong” and examples of this are scattered throughout the field notes and also previously mentioned above in the positive reinforcement section. She is also aware that positive teacher-student relationships are needed, and she has created a very strong connects. In most regards this bound is good; however, the two negatives that were displayed in the field notes were that the children think of her more as a mother/friend and that they do not listen to other authority figures.

Similar to physical and socio-emotional development, cognitive development is increased with a secure attachment between the parent and child (E, 806). Increasing importance is being associated with the “mothers’ verbal responsiveness, which are important for the emergent language and cognitive skills” (Increase in maternal Education, 3). According to a recent study from Arizona State University, researchers concluded infants with an insecure attachment were less “focused during storybook interactions” and therefore experienced less stimulation as the secure mother/child dyad. (F,445).

Mind (2013) states that the term ‘well-being’ is how one feels from ‘day to day’ (Mind, 2013), how one is able to live, work and take part within their community by having the confidence and friendship’s. One is also resilient to any changes and adversity in their lives (Mind, 2013). This assignment is going to draw on the E219 module materials from Attachment within the Early Years and Adolescence and Emotion within the Early Years, Middle Childhood and Adolescence. The type of attachment a child has with their caregiver will determine the level of their well-being they have. These, attachments change as the child grows up into an adolescent. Their emotions develop over time form the basic understanding of happiness to more complex emotions that come with puberty. Doward (2014) produced an article based upon the report of Layard et al (2014) the main points will be analysed including; how he claims that one’s income level does not play a big part in ones happiness and that David Cameron has said the same. Yet in comparison Hamburgh’s (2016) newspaper report and Luscombe’s (2010) study stat that money can make people happy. Karreman & Vingerhoets (2012) identifies that the level of one’s well-being is linked to their attachment type. Another significant aspect to a child 's well-being is the emotions they have and develop over time and how attachments and emotions are interlinked. The emotional knowledge and the community of where a child lives is linked to Sameroff’s (1987)

By admitting infants diagnosed with neonatal hypoglycemia (low blood glucose levels in infants) into the Kennestone Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), infants are not in close proximity of their mothers. In addition to interrupting breast feeding, this disturbance in the mother-infant bonding creates separation anxiety for the infants leading them to being anxious-resistant or avoidant (insecure attachment patterns where infants are extremely distressed or unaffected by the separation respectively) in the strange situation, which is “a laboratory paradigm for studying infant-parent attachment” (Fraley, 2010).  Obtaining an insecure attachment pattern, instead of a secure attachment pattern (infants who seek for parental attention), impacts “multiple domains, such as emotional processing and executive functions” (Escobar et al., 2013, pg. 1).  In addition, insecure attachments correlate with “reduced attention to angry faces, which can reflect a failure to notice threatening stimuli” (Escobar et al., 2013).  Avoidance of disturbances between the mother-infant bond aids in

Evaluation of Research Into Factors that Influence the Development of Attachments in Humans During First Year of Life

Berzoff, Flangan, and Hertz (2008) recognize Ainsworth differentiated two types of attachment styles. The first type is avoidant infants, who did not protest their mother’s leaving and did not respond to her immediately upon her return. Ainsworth’s second type is insecurity, ambivalent infants (also called resistant) were upset when their mothers left and seemed to welcome their return, but did not calm down readily and they often resisted their mothers attempt to calm them down. Max is a four year old child, who experienced a full term labor. Holistically his biological functioning was determined as appropriate having met all of his developmental milestones. Unexpectedly, Max experienced repeated trauma in early childhood and he was separated from his biological mother.

Advances in technology and research methodology, have illuminated our understanding of brain development, across multiple scientific fields. What follows is a brief review of several important new understandings in contemporary attachment theory. These new understandings have been elucidated by research findings in multiple fields including epigenetics, right brain development, and the regulating versus dysregulating effects of early attachment. Finally, a number of important implications for clinical work are exemplified, by a brief discussion of the therapeutic alliance. We begin with a cursory description of early attachment theory, and several of its important positions.

Attachment theory proposes that the way infants and children form bonds with their primary caregiver have lifelong implications as to how they may form bonds with others, including their own children. This bonding is created through affectionate gestures, the ability to rely on the caregiver’s availability and willingness to fulfill the needs of the child, and the general feeling of safety when in the proximity of the caregiver. While the attachments begin as an infant they are malleable throughout life, and easier to form or transform the younger a person is (Strengths-Based Generalist Practice A Collaborative Approach, Poulin, 2010, pp. 580-581).Victoria was in foster care from birth and had not received the ideal responses required of her caregiver. In the case of Victoria she was relocated from placement to placement often, and experienced a variety of abuses and neglect, these characteristics are indicative of someone with an avoidant attachment style. Attachments may become avoidant resulting in the child’s reluctance to put themselves in a position to be forsaken repeatedly by the unapproachability of the caregiver (Dimensions of Human Behavior Person and Environment, Hutchison, 2015, p. 150). Victoria exemplifies this repeatedly throughout the book in the fact that she refuses to rely on any caregiver, in the specific case of her placement with Elizabeth she refuses to believe that there would be any permanency. “I did not believe there to be even the

Human nature has evolved in ways that allow for people to develop deep connections with one another. These connections are always extremely vulnerable in the very early stages of our infancy. From the moment we are born, we innately seek to forge an attachment with our caregivers; mostly because without it, we would not survive. Evidently, we are biologically programmed to bond with our mothers (or closest caregivers), immediately after birth. More often than not, this is a reciprocal connection which establishes an enduring emotional relationship that inevitably shapes our growth and development. Our capacities to adapt to our environment are inextricably bound to the attachments we form with our closest caregivers.

Max has different attachment styles with different people. Attachment is characterized by specific behaviors in children, such as seeking closeness with the attachment figure when upset or threatened (Bowlby, 1979). Max has a insecure avoidant attachment with his biological mother because he does not trust her to provide safety during stressful situations (Brandell, 2007). Max remembers being left with his mother 's boyfriend and being fondled. Max knows that his mother is the individual who usually separates him from his primary caregivers. When Max is scheduled to see his mother he begins to cry and cling to his Aunt Kelly. Kathleen was not sensitive to the needs of Max. Kathleen

Early childhood learning in the kindergarten setting began in the late 1800s. It was mostly females that were the teachers until late into the 1900s in 1969. The first few Australian kindergartens were led by feminists, although it may not have been viewed that way at the time. It was viewed as one of the first female empowered professions (Brennan, 1994). There could be many different psychological reasons why it was heavily female led from the beginning. One possible psychological reason for this may be the attachment that a child can feel to a female, because of the attachment that the child might have to their mother. This attachment could lead the child to feeling like their mother is a safe base. This means that the child feels safe

Traditional research on Attachment Theory focuses on the bonds created between infants and their caregivers within the first few years of life. When tested, these children typically display an “organized” pattern of behavior when seeking comfort and safety from their caregiver. Organized attachments are those that follow a specific pattern of behavior and are clearly defined as secure, insecure—avoidant, or insecure—ambivalent. However, there remains a percentage of children who fail to engage in predictable behavior when seeking comfort. Essentially, these children behave indiscriminately towards their caregivers and strangers. With no set boundaries by which they seek and receive comfort, their behavior is classified as “disorganized.” New research in this field of study shows the importance in distinguishing the differences between “organized” and “disorganized” types rather than only observing the traditional types of attachment. While examining this new perspective in attachment theory, we speculate whether a lack of goal oriented behavior to seek comfort and safety will in turn lead to an increased risk in psychopathology in early childhood and adolescence.

Attachment theory implied that the quality of infancy attachment patterns is consistent and continue to influence later development in relationship experiences. The first major article of Roisman et al. (2005) supported this statement, by investigating the correlation between participants’ infancy attachment and their behaviour in current romantic relationships. Data was drawn from a longitudinal cohort, where participants’ initial relationships were assessed in the infancy of 12 months by Strange Situations (Roisman et al, 2005). While most clients are Caucasians, some have mixed racial backgrounds such as African Americans. At the age of 20, 73 heterosexual couples who were in ongoing relationships of four months or longer were to

Attachment refers to the specific, strong, long-term binds in human interpersonal relationship. When getting along with whom one form attachment with, one would feel secure and comforted. Though some said that the attachment was firstly formed in pregnancy, the main formation of attachment is mostly developed in infancy and early childhood (less than 5 years old). In the second half of the first year, infant would start to recognize and become attached to the familiar caregiver who always responds to their needs. When they feel insecure or alarmed, the attachment would be served as the behavioral stimulation which directs them to turn to the caregivers for protection and