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    Maternal Deprivation This essay will discuss maternal deprivation and its consequences. Bowlby states that: “A child should receive the continuous care of this single most important attachment figure for approximately the first two years of life.”(Bowlby 1951) Bowlby used the term maternal deprivation to refer to the separation or loss of the mother as well as failure to develop an attachment. The underlying assumption of Bowlby’s Maternal Deprivation Hypothesis is that continual disruption

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    The impacts of infants attachment in their early stages can never be overlooked. It forms the basis of their development and interaction with others especially caregivers. John Bowlby defined attachment as a “lasting psychological connectedness between human beings” (1969‚ p.194). Nativist sees the connectedness as a biological process; empiricist‚ however‚ perceives connectedness as a learning curve through interaction with the environment. This essay will look at Bowlby’s evolutionary theory and

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    living. Attachment is the most critical thing that happens in infancy other than meeting the baby’s physical needs. John Bowlby‚ Mary Ainsworth and Margaret Mahler were psychologists who helped us to better understand how attachment is important in early life development and how these early childhood attachments can possibly impact adult behaviors later in life. John Bowlby‚ was born in a upper middle class family in England. His parents would only spent a small amount of time with him per day

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    fundamentally responsible for our present understanding of children and what drives human relationships are psychiatrist John Bowlby (1969) and his colleague‚ Mary Ainsworth (1989)‚ a developmental psychologist who further elaborated on the theory. The theory was based mainly on ethology‚ the study of the advanced behaviour of numerous species in their natural habitat. Bowlby drew his main concepts from psychoanalytic theory as he was a trained therapist in psychoanalytic thinking about how mother-child

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    development‚ attachment theory. John Bowlby (1940) (cited in Wood et al. 2007) theory was that a ’child has a natural drive to form bonds with a primary care giver’. Bowlby believed that the important for a mother and child to form a ’ healthy internal working model (expectations of how two people relate to one another‚ established during childhood and the affects on later adult relationships). Mary Ainsworth (1954) (cited in Wood et al. 2007) spent some time working with Bowlby researching ’maternal deprivation’

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    self-concept. The theories which I will be focused on are Bowlby’s and Harter’s. Bowlby theory Bowlby worked for many years as a child psychoanalyst so was clearly very influenced by Freud’s theories and child development. However‚ he also liked the work of Lorenz on the innate nature of bonds through imprinting and combined these two very different ideas to produce his own evolutionary theory of attachments. Bowlby believed that attachment is innate and adaptive. We are all born with an inherited

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    Osborne What is Attachment? Attachment is an emotional bond to another person. Psychologist John Bowlby was the first attachment theorist‚ describing attachment as a "lasting psychological connectedness between human beings" (Bowlby‚ 1969‚ p. 194). Bowlby believed that the earliest bonds formed by children with their caregivers have a tremendous impact that continues throughout life. According to Bowlby‚ attachment also serves to keep the infant close to the mother‚ thus improving the child’s chances

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    18‚ 36-51. Bowlby‚ J. (1940) ‘The Influence of Early Environment in the Development of Neurosis and Neurotic Character’‚ International Journal of Psychoanalysis‚ 21‚ 154-78 Bowlby‚ J. (1951). Maternal Care and Mental Health. World Health Organisation Monograph (Serial No. 2)‚ Geneva Bowlby‚ J. (1969). Attachment and Loss: Vol. 1. Attachment. New York: Basic Books. Bowlby‚ J. (1973). Attachment and Loss: Vol. 2. Separation: Anxiety and Anger. New York: Basic Books. Bowlby‚ J. (1979) The

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    infants form with their caregivers‚ and the results gained from these studies show how early attachments can affect children whether positively or negatively. Some psychologists claim that the ability to attach to the caregiver is innate in babies. Bowlby said that ‘babies are born with an innate tendency to create strong emotional bonds with their caregivers’. This is mainly for survival because the caregiver provides them with food and shelter. Ainsworth sees attachment as an emotional bond

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    theory. The root of the mother-infant relationship as well as a child’s development can be linked to John Bowlby’s theory of attachment. Bowlby‚ a British psychoanalyst‚ developed the theory after running a study in which he attempted to understand the intense distress experienced by infants who had been separated from their parents. Upon separation‚ Bowlby observed the lengths to which infants would go in order to prevent separation and later‚ to reunite with their parent. The observed behaviors

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