Attachment

Question 1

What are the main attachment styles?

Answer 1

Secure Attachment (70%) 
Anxious Avoidant Attachment (15%)
Anxious Ambivalent Attachment (15%)
Disorganised Attachment (often in older children in the context of severe trauma)

Question 2

Describe Secure Attachment - Child

Answer 2

Readily explores, using carer as secure base
Cries infrequently
Easily put down after being held
Confident

Question 3

Describe Secure Attachment - Caregiver

Answer 3

Appropriate response to upset
Appropriate encouragement to explore
Tuned in to child’s needs

Question 4

Describe Anxious Avoidant Attachment - Child

Answer 4

Avoids or ignores parent when they return

Stranger often treated similarly to parent

Question 5

Describe Anxious Avoidant Attachment - Caregiver

Answer 5

Disinterested
Uncomfortable with showing affection
Overly encourages separation/independence

Question 6

Describe Anxious Ambivalent Attachment - Child

Answer 6

Exports little and often wary of strangers, even with caregiver present
Unsure how to respond when parent returns, despite large emotional response

Question 7

Describe Anxious Ambivalent Attachment - Caregiver

Answer 7

Unpredictable
Inconsistent
Frightening

Question 8

Describe Disorganised Attachment - Chid

Answer 8

No cohesive response
Bizarre behaviour - soiling, destruction of possessions, odd noises
Stressed and exhibits tension movements activated by return or departure of caregiver