Development and mental health in infancy and early childhood 1

Question 1

What is the normative development of attachment stages?

Answer 1

1. Undifferentiated sociability
2. Differentiated sociability
3. True attachment
4. Partnership

Question 2

What is the normative development of attachment stages?

Answer 2

1. Undifferentiated sociability
2. Differentiated sociability
3. True attachment
4. Partnership

Question 3

What is the infant mental model?

Answer 3

About themselves
About the behavior of the attachment figures
About the nature of a close relationship

Question 4

What is the stages of the stranger situation?

Answer 4

2. Infant and the mother
3. Stranger enter, mother leaves
4. Infant and stranger
5. Mother returns, stranger leaves
6. Mother leaves, infant alone
7. Stranger returns
8. Mother return, stranger leaves

Question 5

What is observed in SS?

Answer 5

Infant behaviors at reunion with the mother
Infant behavior during separation
Infant behavior before separation

Question 6

What is characteristic atypical behavior?

Answer 6

1. Stimultaneous or sequentional contradictory behavior, conflict of approach and departure
2. Sign of fear from the caregiver
3. Prolonged immobility, freezing
4. Aimless, hesitating or stereotypical movements

Question 7

What is similar between secure and insecure attachment?

Answer 7

1. Predictable, indetifiable patterns
2. Organized series of behavior to adapted to caregiver
3. Coordinated behavior and attention system - function of attachment, infant goal

Organized strategies for coping with stress eliciting- attachment behavior

Question 8

What is the limitations of SSP research?

Answer 8

Validity at age 12-18 months - not talking babies
Training for administration and evaluation
Categorical data
Retest effect

Question 9

What is the limitations of SSP research?

Answer 9

Validity at age 12-18 months - not talking babies
Training for administration and evaluation
Categorical data
Retest effect

Question 10

What are the misbelief?

Answer 10

1. Behavior seen in the strange situation is characteristic of the infant in general
2. Stranger situation useful for diagnostics, insecure attachment is pathological needs therapy
3. No secure attachment can be formed if: no communication during pregnancy, no skin contact with newborn and not breastfeed her babay
4. If no attachment formed the critical period, e.g. in an orphanage ,later the child is unable to form attachment

Question 11

What are the AMBIANCE scheme ?

Answer 11

1. Affective errors
2. Role confusion
3. Frightened/ Disoriented behavior
4. Negative intrusive behavior
5. Withdrawal

Question 12

Affective errors:

Answer 12

Contradictory cues:
Tone- content
Tone-, content- facial expression
Call b close while distancing

Lack of responses:
B falls - M no comforting

Inappropriate responses:
M laught at crying B

Inappropriate responses:
M laught at crying B
M minimizes B’s distress

Question 13

Role confusion:

Answer 13

Role reversal:
M obeys to B
M elicits reassurance from B

Sexualization:
Sexualized body contact
Talks in intimate tone to B

Question 14

Disorientation:

Answer 14

Confused, Frightened by B:
Tone
Circling around B
Shy, helpless

Disoriented, dissociated behavior:
Loss of affect, posture
Bizarre voices (laught)

Question 15

Negative- intrusive behavior:

Answer 15

Physical
Pulling, pressing, cornering B

Verbal
Mocking, teasing B

Attribution

Control through objects

Question 16

Withdrawal

Answer 16

Create physical distance
Avoids body contact, eye contact
Inept holding

Creates verbal distance
Speechless, doesn’t greeting B
Won’t pick you up

Orient B toward toys/ objects
Places object between B and herself

Question 17

Attachment disorders?

Answer 17

Reactive attachmentdisorder (RAD)
Disinhibited social engagement disorder (DSED)