Attachment 2.2 Flashcards
Secure Attachment
1- Caregiver responds sensitively, consistently and appropriately
2-Deeply rooted sense of safety and security
Resistant attachment (Insecure/organized)
1-The caregiver often responds inconsistently or unpredictable to the physical and emotional needs of the child.
2-Basic sense of insecurity and uncertainty
-Lower levels of psychological awareness
Avoidant attachment
(Insecure/organized)
1-The caregiver responds with inadequate, controlling care to physical emotional needs of the child.
2-Basic sense of insecurity and unfriendliness
3-Psychological unavailability
Ambivalent kids behaviour when need help
difficulty dealing with a novel, complex object, more hesitance, less flexible, less effective in problem-solving.
(seeks for help in small problems and acts younger than his actual age.)
Avoidant kids behaviour when need help
1-No problems in handling novel objects, close physical and emotional encounters with peers are very challenging.
2-Seeks help contact when stress is over, often disobedient, others often respond instructive and controlling.
Disorganized attachment style
1-The caregiver is perceived as frightening,frightened or malicious.
2-Fright without solution: the parent is both a source of comfort and a source of anxiety.
-Prevalence is 15% non clinical groups, 50-80%clinical groups.
Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
lack of organized attachment, problems with emotion regulation, so not seek comfort when in stress.
Disinhibited social engagement (DSED)
do not look back at the caregiver while wandering off, social superificality and attention seeking, inappropriate,ate physical contact
Developmental tasks to complete in first year of life?
1- Development of Attachment relationships
2-development of sense of identity(cognitions, emotions)
3-basic understanding of others and the world
Experiment
Regardless if the adults are arguing with positive or negative language children were equally affective in arguments.
The process of making sense from arguments
1-Primary appraisal: noticing the conflict and evaluating wether it represents a threat
2- Secondary appraisal: trying to understand why the conflict is happening and what the child should do about it.
After argument: Desensitisation
being less sensitive to adults arguing and seeing it as a background noise
After argument: sensitisation
becoming increasingly reactive the more they are exposed to.
A strong bond with a friendship can compensate for a weak sibling relationship.
Contrast between RAD- DSED
1-RAD more responsive to enhance quality of caregiving
2-DSED is more difficult to treat.