John Bowlby's Attachment Analysis

A child’s social and emotional development is when the child interacts and communicates with people creating relationships, social norms and values and being able to express and feel emotions and to be able to deal with them as well. Their language development is developed through communication, it also is administered through body language, facial expressions and through thoughts and feelings.
At the stage of development, 18 months to 3 years from the mind map we can see that a child’s social and emotional development is developing their social skills, making friends, getting on with new people, expressing their feelings and showing feelings towards other people. At 3-5 years a child’s social and emotional development is developing as they
3-5 years need to feel included as they may feel left out if something in the family changes or if their parents do something without them. John Bowlby’s attachment theory is based on social and emotional development as he “believed that children have an innate need to develop a close relationship with one main figure, usually the mother.” (David L, 2016). Bowlby’s theory shows that if children do not have this attachment then is may affect their personalities as they grow up and they may not be healthy. 18 months to 3 years and 3 to 5 years in Bowlby’s attachment are both part of the clear-cut attachment phase this is developed from 6 months onwards. Through this phase children start to get anxious when a parent leaves the room and they are left with someone different. Through this they begin to learn that something or someone does still exist even though they are not with them. They begin to learn that their parent has things to do themselves and cannot always be with the child but they do keep them in their mind. This will help the child to go on to nursery as they will be able to go
Bowlby’s theory helps the children grow confidence and independence as well as developing empathy which creates responsible and characteristics in a child, the first attachment also makes a mold for relationships in the future. However, Erik Erikson’s theory on lifespan approach which is social development and cultural factors show that he believed that personality developed in a series of stages (Cherry K, 2013). Erikson’s theory has eight stages, between 18months and 3 years the stage is called autonomy vs shame and doubt. At this stage he believes that the parents should let their child try things that themselves until their limits exceed them which means the parent can then help them if they fail to create encourage meant so they do not give up and want to try again and this lets them discover their independence of doing things themselves. This gives them confidence