FINAL CASE CONCEPTUALIZATION PAPER In Building the Bonds of Attachment (Hughes‚ 2008)‚ Katie an abused‚ neglected‚ and poorly attached child‚ spent the first years of her life with parents who cared little about her. As a result she is an angry‚ unhappy‚ and manipulative kid. Is there any hope for her to grow up and become a healthy and happy adult? Daniel Hughes (2008) monitors Katie through her life with abusive birth parents and many foster homes‚ showing how
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guardianship among other things. Vincent may have an anxious-ambivalent attachment to his mother‚ which could impact risks for developmental problems. He contiuously wants his mother’s love‚ yet she is not consistent in giving it to him. Therefore‚ Vincent could struggle later in life with intimacy or possibly have a fear of rejection. 2. Intergenerational transmission of attachment refers to similarities and differences in attachment styles between parents and their children (Example: how your grandmother
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As humans we form attachments with other humans throughout our lifetime. As we go into each stage of life our attachments change. I believe our first attachment as human starts as fetus’s in our mother’s womb. Before we know about life we know our mothers and from that moment our attachment starts. What exactly is an attachment? Attachment is an emotional tie to a specific other person or people that endures across time and space. In 1958 the first attachment theorist by the name of John Bowlby’s
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Running Head: ATTACHMENT THEORY Attachment Theory: A Bond for Specific Others Abstract Attachment theory is the joint work of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth that examine a special emotional relationship that involves an exchange of comfort‚ care‚ and pleasure. John Bowlby devoted extensive research to the concept of attachment and describes it as a connectedness between individuals that is psychologically lasting and through Mary Ainsworth’s innovative methodology not only has
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Infants and toddlers need to be helped to make secure emotional attachment to adults. There are many advantages in an infant and toddlers emotional attachment to caregivers. Infants pay special attention to attachment figures. This attention helps the child learn from how the adult reacts and how they speak. Infants learn through informal direction‚ not a formal lesson or instruction from a teacher. Infants and toddlers learn how to respond to events based on how their caregiver(s) react. Emotional
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Ainsworth pertaining to the topic of attachment theory. Attachment is an important concept to understand within the context of modern society. As human history has progressed‚ so has the complexity of social structure. Bowlby and Ainsworth made observations of contemporary tendencies and connected these behaviors to security‚ parental presence and then made predictions as to how attachment can predict a person’s future behavior. One benefit gained through knowing attachment theory foremost is empathy. Relating
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nurture debate which was one of the main aims set out in the introduction‚ in particular biological theory. Bowlby’s attachment theory has a strong link to the continuing debate‚ the theory has a view that during the evolution of the human species the babies that survived were the ones that stayed with their mothers‚ linking it too infants and their mothers needing a biological attachment (Understanding
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Describe and Evaluate Bowlby’s theory of attachment. An attachment refers to ‘a close two-way emotional relationship between two people. In Child Psychology this focus is on the main care-giver most commonly (but not exclusively) our mothers.’ According to Bowlby‚ children develop an attachment to one main caregiver which is qualitatively different than any others e.g. warm and continuous relationship with mother. This attachment has to occur within the sensitive period (6-24 months) or there could
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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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dependency (and attachment)‚ and an ethologically oriented theory of attachment. "Object relations‚" "dependency‚" and "attachment‚" although overlapping‚ are seen to differ substantially. Among the concepts in regard to which there are significant intertheoretical differences‚ the following are discussed: genetic "biases‚" reinforcement as compared with activation and termination of behavioral systems and with feedback‚ strength of attachment behavior versus strength of attachment‚ inner representation
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