Discuss Concepts of Attachment in Human Development. What Implications Does This Have for a Society in Which the Majority of Mothers Are Employed Outside the Home?
Discuss concepts of attachment in human development. What implications does this have for a society in which the majority of Mothers are employed outside the home?
Attachment is the bond and affection created by two people. It is a need developed in human beings since we are born to feel secure and safe.
According to Bowlby, this theory is an emotion connection human beings generate when they are born where they get emotionally associated to caregivers, normally the mother, creating to an emotional reaction when this connection of attachment is in danger or gone. (Worden 1991)
“Lasing psychological connectedness between human beings”
The caregiver is giving to the baby an emotional security needed for the development of the baby. (Hospice Slo)
This attachment between baby and caregiver can be partially replaced when the baby grows and gets involved for longer periods of time during the day with other human beings but it is very important to keep the infant close to the main caregiver to improve child’s chance of survival.
Birth involves changes and adjustments, pain and joy and new beginnings (Kubler-Ross 1981)
Key Features of Bolby’s theory of Attachment.
-Monotropy: Babies are strongly attached to the caregiver who is normally the mother, and this attachment takes its form on the first year of life.
-If attachment with the mother has not taken place by age 2, it will be almost impossible to adjust it, even after 6 months of the baby’s life; it would make it very difficult.
-Secure attachment to the caregiver is very important for a future emotional, social and intellectual development.
-Once attachment is created, if it gets interrupted it can led to massive consequences on social, intellectual and emotional development.
-Reciprocal: The attachment is form in a two way.
-Critical period. Between 6 months and 2 years is most important period where the baby and the caregiver should be close to creating a bond.
Attachment is the bond and affection created by two people. It is a need developed in human beings since we are born to feel secure and safe.
According to Bowlby, this theory is an emotion connection human beings generate when they are born where they get emotionally associated to caregivers, normally the mother, creating to an emotional reaction when this connection of attachment is in danger or gone. (Worden 1991)
“Lasing psychological connectedness between human beings”
The caregiver is giving to the baby an emotional security needed for the development of the baby. (Hospice Slo)
This attachment between baby and caregiver can be partially replaced when the baby grows and gets involved for longer periods of time during the day with other human beings but it is very important to keep the infant close to the main caregiver to improve child’s chance of survival.
Birth involves changes and adjustments, pain and joy and new beginnings (Kubler-Ross 1981)
Key Features of Bolby’s theory of Attachment.
-Monotropy: Babies are strongly attached to the caregiver who is normally the mother, and this attachment takes its form on the first year of life.
-If attachment with the mother has not taken place by age 2, it will be almost impossible to adjust it, even after 6 months of the baby’s life; it would make it very difficult.
-Secure attachment to the caregiver is very important for a future emotional, social and intellectual development.
-Once attachment is created, if it gets interrupted it can led to massive consequences on social, intellectual and emotional development.
-Reciprocal: The attachment is form in a two way.
-Critical period. Between 6 months and 2 years is most important period where the baby and the caregiver should be close to creating a bond.
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