The most important aspect of human development is the opportunity to form and maintain relationships. Healthy relationships are crucial for humans to survive, work, love, learn, and procreate. Human relationships come in many shapes but the most pleasurable, intense, and the most painful ones are those with family and friends. What keeps those relationships together like glue is love. Each person has the ability to form and maintain relationships in their own way. For some is comes naturally and others may not be so lucky. The ability to form and maintain relationships come from the functioning of certain parts of the human brain. There is a part in our brain that allows us to form and maintain emotional relationships. That part of the human …show more content…
The infant’s temperament influences bonding and attachment. A myth that is believed by many families is that if the child is held often or too long, they will become spoiled. Also if the infant is irritable or difficult to sooth can put a damper on the development of attachment. The attachment is also compromised if the infant is unable to participate in maternal- infant interaction due to medical attention. The caregiver’s interaction can also impair bonding. The child’s mother may not be responsive due to depression or substance abuse. If an infant is fearful, they will have a hard time bonding. It can be distress, or chaotic environment that can prevent them from participating in a caring relationship. Infants or children who are vulnerable to developing attachment issues are those who live in domestic violence, war zone environment, refugee, and community violence. A major factor that influences attachment is the fit of infant and caregiver. Some may be fine with a calm infant but be very overwhelmed with a irritable infant. To maintain the attachment and bonding experiences it is important to read the cues and respond appropriately. It is important for caregivers to be aware that the communication style used for one child may not work for the new child. The caregiver’s frustration of feeling out of sync with the infant can impair …show more content…
It is very important to be aware of the attachment style because that shows the different outcomes on the child’s well-being. Children who are secure in their attachments are more freely to explore and have the opportunity to learn with confidence. Children who are insecure will most likely struggle in being confident and learning from the surroundings. Children who are insecure will be more at risk for hostile, anti-social, emotionally unstable, difficulty in regulating emotions, stress acted out in unhealthy ways and insensitivity to others who are stressed. Children who are secure will most likely have greater ability to handle stress, emotionally stable, manage feelings well, and exhibit positive social
The secure babies used their mothers as a base to explore and as a protective safe haven. They were upset when the caregivers left but when they returned, they brought safety to the baby. Babies who had an avoidant attachment, didn’t want their caregiver upon return to the room. The caregivers for these babies may have been unresponsive to their signals of distress. Some babies were also classified as having resistant attachments, and tried kicking or arching their backs when comforted by the caregiver.
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Attachment theory states that either secure or insecure bonds may form between infant and mother in the first several months of the infant’s life for the purposes of safety and security. The bond formed between infant and mother influences the quality of the relationships a child has throughout his or her life. One major reasoning of the attachment theory is that the parents are a sanctuary of safety throughout all of early childhood. Insecure attachments promote feelings of threat, rejection, and personal unworthiness. This can also be the explanation for the dream children stashing food away because of the possible threat that there,” will come a time when they will not be fed” (Smith 99).Unhealthy attachments not only lead to poor caregiver-child relationships, but can also cause a dysfunctional self-development, defective relationships, substance abuse problems, and educational difficulties.
However, many parents are finding out that children who attached appropriately as infants begin to exhibit symptoms
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This test observed patterns in the infants’ experiences of separation and reunion with their mother, and their reaction to a stranger, in order to evaluate the type of attachment relationship the infant shared with their mother (Ainsworth, 1978). Ainsworth found a significant consistency between the mothers’ interactive styles and the reactions of the infants. The results of this test led Ainsworth to classify the behaviours into three main categories. She identified the infants to have secure attachment, or one of two forms of insecure attachment, avoidant or ambivalent (Music,
Although we are studying theories, some of them appear to explain human behavior and personality with certain accuracy. John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth theories of attachment can also explain what happens to people when attachment to their parents or caregivers is healthy or potential problems that could occur due to detachments. They suggest that individuals raised with secure attachments to their primary caregivers help them to feel secure; moreover, these children appear to be more socially skilled and less likely to experience major emotional disturbances. However, failure to form healthy attachments, especially mother-child, could serve as a descriptive mechanism for many negative psychological outcomes later in the life of an individual,
The babies were visited monthly and the carers were also observed and interviewed. A diary was also kept by the primary care giver (usually the mother) three measure were recorded. The first was stranger anxiety – the response to the arrival of a stranger, the second was separation anxiety – the distress levels when separated from the career and the degree of comfort upon their return and finally social referencing – the degree that the child looks at the carer to check how they should respond to something new (this is referred to as secure base). They discovered that a baby’s attachment follows in this sequence. • 0-6 weeks – Asocial –
Ainsworth found 3 patterns of attachment: secure, avoidant, and ambivalent. Secure attachment is when the mother is a safe place for the child. Avoidant attachment is when the child avoids the mother, as if they are upset
Thus, suggesting that caregiver relationships are crucial to children’s psychological and physical survival. As infants are unable to verbalize their thoughts, crying is used as a means of communication and interaction between the infant and caregiver. Caring for an Infant
The experiment was done in a room with a one way glass to observe the infant. Different situations were given to the infant to determine the infant’s attachment style, the mother of the infant would leave the room and the infant would be left with the experimenter or the experimenter would leave the room and leave the mother and infant alone. How the infant reacts to the situation is used to determine the attachment style of the infant. Infants with secure attachment style would be distressed every time the mother would leave, the infant avoids the stranger when the mother leaves and when the mother returns the infant becomes happier. Infants with ambivalent attachment attachment style get distressed whenever the mother leaves, and avoids the stranger when left alone.
A human baby is born with poorly developed sight and is unable to move. As a consequence to this he is vulnerable and is completely dependent on a carer for survival (Winston, 2003). To improve the chances of survival, the baby is born with pre-programmed and automatic behaviour which are prompted by environmental factors (Bergen, 2008). Bowlby theorised that when a young child feels distressed, frightened or confused, attachment behaviour is triggered and this serves to bring the child closer to their mother* who provides the desired comfort, care and protection (Bowlby,
In addition, some infants are classified as disorganized/disoriented with regard to attachment as they are not able to settle in to a single, organized attachment pattern when in distress. Instead, they become disoriented or resort to conflicting behavioral strategies. Attachments are not characteristic of either the caregivers or infants. It is the relationship bonds overtime between emotion and behaviors as infant and caregiver interact, particularly when infant needs for comfort are of concern. Sense of trust develops when a baby’s needs are responded to.
Insecure attachment is “characterized by fear, anxiety, anger, or indifference.” (Berger 2014, pg.193). An infant becomes insecurely attached to his caregiver when the child has learned that there are no positive effects to emotional expressions. For example, when a caregiver allows the child to “cry it out” and is unresponsive to the child’s needs, the child will learn that his needs will not be fulfilled by others. This results in the child not being able to develop any emotional awareness and might feel emotionally detached from his caregiver.
Through factors such as cognitive development of the infant, attentive care and intimate interactions with a primary caregiver, the attachment relationship is created – shaping the infants- caregiver bond. By examining the interactions between an infant and their primary caregiver, we can identify secure, insecure and disorganized attachment (Ainsworth, 1978; Cassidy 1994); which can reveal a great deal about the relationship between the infant and attachment figure. Overall, the quality of attachment bonds formed in the early years can have long lasting effects on an infant’s emotional security and social competence; not only shaping their ability to form relationships, but laying the foundations for the social, emotional and mental development of the