Ainsworth's Attachment Theory

This week we observed how parent-infant interactions affect the socio-development and cognitive pathways of a child. Additionally, we witnessed how maternal receptiveness, touch and response build upon the security of self later in life through the specific contributions of Bowlby and Ainsworth in their creation of Attachment Theory and Attachment styles (Crain, 2010). However, it was Ainsworth’s findings on the interconnectedness between maternal attachment attitudes during pregnancy as they translated into the attachment styles of their infants that invariably grabbed hold of my interest (Crain, 2010).
Interestingly enough, and perhaps logically so, new research has taken Attachment Theory one step further to address the question(s) “Does