Infant Attachment By Donna Bey Academic Affliation Abstract This paper will discuss the object relation theory. It will discuss infant attachment from a human drive and motivation perspective. It will focus on the object-relation theory and in particular‚ Melanie Klein’s concepts as it relates to infant attachment. The “object relations” theory is a related approach to personality psychology and refers to pattern of interpersonal functioning. Klein concepts of infant attachment is discussed
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1817. Bierman‚ K. L.‚ Nix‚ R. L.‚ Greenberg‚ C. B.‚ Domitrovich‚ C. E. (2008). Development and Psychopathology‚ 20(3)‚ 821 - 843. Bowlby‚ J. (1951). Maternal care and mental health. Geneva‚ Switzerland: WHO Headquarters. Bowlby‚ J. (1969). Attachment: Attachment and loss: Vol. 1. London‚ United Kingdom: Hogarth Press. Dennis‚ W. (1973). Children of the Creche. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. Fox‚ N. A.‚ Almas‚ A. N.‚ Degna‚ K. A.‚ Nelson C. A.‚ & Zeanah‚ C. H. (2011). The effects of severe psychosocial
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Life Span Human Development II Writing Assignment 1 Angela Collins-Salboro Psychology 231 Dr. Winona Fleenor June 15‚ 2011 Part I When a child is born it is very important part of its life to have human contact. This is what has happen to what the experts have called “The Wild Child”. However instead of human contact they have had contact with animals that have adopted them into their pack. It could have been by dogs‚ monkeys‚ wolfs or even bears. Some children are lost in the woods
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context influences. Bowlby’s attachment theory identifies three types of internal working models underpinning three basic infant attachment styles which were later translated empirically by Mary Ainsworth (1989) into infant attachment classifications. The attachment theory relies on the assumption that these internal working models are stable over time and enduring‚ hence each type of Ainsworth’s infant attachment types can be associated with their related adult attachment styles (Wood‚ Littleton‚ Oates
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Infant Attachment: What We Know Now Virginia L. Colin Nancy Low & Associates‚ Inc. June 28‚ 1991 PDF Version ________________________________________ This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-90-0035 between U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)‚ Office of Family‚ Community and Long-Term Care Policy (now the Office of Disability‚ Aging and Long-Term Care Policy) and Nancy Low & Associates‚ Inc. For additional information about
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John Bowlby is the person behind the theory of attachment. According to Bowlby‚ we are all born with innate behaviors that draw us close to our caregivers especially in times of perceived danger. This initial attachment behavior and the response of the caregiver to that behavior latter develop in to a sense of security and insecurity as well as several other personality traits in adults. Therefore‚ clearly defining one’s attachment styles helps us understand how that person would behave in a given
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Relations concepts seen in this play‚ the most obvious seen within it is John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory. The Attachment Theory is a theory that claims individuals orientations toward intimacy are shaped by very early relationships with caregivers and is constituted of 3 basic models: the secure attachment model‚ the anxious-avoidant attachment model‚ and the anxious-resistant attachment model. The secure-attachment model is seen within the way Prince Dauntless illustrates a positive self- conception
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Relationships Children that do not receive continuous loving care‚ and do not form attachments with the care-giver‚ can grow up to be emotionally and cognitively damaged. Attachment is defined as: ‘a long enduring emotionally meaningful bond to a particular individual’¸ this bond is usually characterised by a desire for proximity to the care-giver and by separation distress when the bond is broken. The attachment object offers comfort and acts as a source of security. THE ROLE OF THE CAREGIVER-INFANT
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Infants primary attachment style is carried through into adult life so would expect the same expectations in later relationships. Shaver et al suggested three behavioural systems that are acquired in infancy which are attachment which is related to Bowlbys research‚ care giving where infants learn to care for each other through modelling the behaviour of the primary attachment figure and sexuality systems which is learnt in relation to early attachment so an individual with avoidant attachment will be more
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attended the University of Toronto where she was one out of four to complete with an honors degree in psychology in 1929. (McLeod 2008) William E. Blatz’s work on child development sparked her interest and agreed to write her dissertation with his theory. After she was done with college she then joined the Canadian Women ’s Army Corps in 1942(McLeod 2008). In 1950 she married Leonard Ainsworth‚ but married only lasted ten years ending in 1960. The end of her marriage led her to depression and she
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