Do children need love to thrive? Flashcards
What is attachment between people?
An enduring emotional relationship between two people involving physical proximity seeking, and provokes separation anxiety
Are infants born anti-social?
No, Crying: a clear signal
Looking: communication strategy
Smiling: starts as reflex, becomes social
Cuddling: human reflex, allows contact
Preference for caregiver’s face, voice, smell, touch
How does secure attachment work (think of the cycle)
Separation and fear leads to anxiety/attachment behaviour.
Carers response re-establishes proximity, anxiety decreases, and attachment behaviour drops
What are securely attached children more likely to develop?
Positive views of themselves and others
Trust and confidence in carers
Snese of security to explore, play and learn
How will parents usually be for their children to become securely attached?
Warm, sensitive, responsible, so the child knows the carer is available to meet needs with consistency
How does avoidant/ambivalent attachment arise
When separation leads to anxiety and attachment behaviour,
The caregiver responds with rejecting, indifferent, insensitive, unavailable, inconsistent actions.
This does not provide comfort, prolonging distress and unregulated emotion
How does disorganised attachment arise
Separation anxiety and attachment behaviour is met with neglect or abuse, making the carers the source of the anxiety
This leads to unresolved fear, trauma, permanent feelings of lack of control, helplessness, confusion
When does attachment begin in a baby
from 7 months
How will a securely attached baby react in a strange environment
Gets upset when mother leaves
Calms down easily when she returns
Explores environment / animated play
What parenting style leads to a securely attached baby
Consistent, responsive
What parenting style leads to avoindant baby
Rejecting, interfering
How will an avoidnant baby react in a strange environment
Not upset when mother leaves
Turns away from mother at return
Mood is flat / play not animated
how will an ambivalent baby react to a strange environment
Gets upset when mother leaves
Seeks contact and rejects it
Remains upset / play not animated
What parenting style leads to an ambivalent baby
inconsistent, unreliable
What parenting style leads to disorganised attachment?
Neglectful, abusive
