Sentences with phrase «attachment theory says»

Attachment theory says that children form «inner working models» for all future relationships from the interactions they have with their first caretakers — usually their mothers.

Attachment theory says an infant instinctively seeks closeness to a secure «attachment figure.»

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Q: Do you see these books as representing a backlash against your theory of «attachment parenting,» which says bonding early — by holding the baby or wearing him in a sling, breast - feeding, bed - sharing and responding quickly to crying — leads to a better long - term relationship?

He also blogs for APtly Said and volunteers with the Attachment Parenting International (API) team creating the Tribute Presentation, to be narrated by Sir Richard Bowlby Bt (API Advisory Board member and son of John Bowlby, the «Father of Attachment Theory») at API's 2014 «Cherishing Families, Flourishing Children» Conference on September 26 - 28 at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana, USA.

The number of attachment figures says nothing about the quality of those attachments, so there was no reason to hypothesize more security among single people, while there was reason, based on attachment theory, to hypothesize more avoidance among single people, seeing as people high on avoidance «avoid intimacy».

«We knew exactly what we were going to get in to,» Grumet said about the cover and story, which focuses on the theory of attachment parenting.

«It drives attachment researchers crazy because it's not really consistent with attachment theory,» says UC — Davis developmental psychologist Ross Thompson.

You said one thing that much Development theory disagrees with: «Most children in two - parent families today form primary attachments to both of their parents at the same stage in their development» Actually, infants attach to the mother more intensely first, then the father and siblings.

This may have been a core element of attachment theory in the past, but more progressive attachment theorists like Michael Rutter and Michael Lamb are saying exactly that, «Most children in two - parent families today form primary attachments to both of their parents at the same stage in their development.»

This theory says that, crucially, high testosterone not only drives sex, it suppresses two other significant hormones called oxyctocin (aka the «love hormone») and arginine vasopressin, both of which play an important role in forging attachment between mates.

The current guidance, which requires one teacher to fully understand attachment theory, is «like having one mechanic with the spanner, but no one else has any tools», the former special school headteacher said.

Web MD says that the roots of attachment parenting come from attachment theory from a psychologist named John Bowlby, who says that an infant seeks closeness from a parent by instinct and that infants who do not experience this would feel insecure as they grow up.

Simon Lenten, Director of Strategy & Services at Parkville College, says the College operates with a careful understanding of how to work in a context that is «trauma saturated», informed by attachment theory and the work of John Bowlby, along with a humanistic physiological approach championed by Carl Rogers.

«People with avoidant attachment histories are too closed down to have access to experience their right - hemisphere processes,» says Daniel Siegel, who's probably done as much as anybody in the field to induce therapists to clasp both attachment theory and neuroscience to their collective bosom.

«The idea that transformed couples therapy emerged from attachment theory and the belief that what's needed in marriage isn't better contracts, but looking at marriage for a safe haven,» Gottman says.

In defense of ethological attachment theory, one must say that it has generated an incredible body of research focused on understanding the social, emotional, and interpersonal development of children.

EFT is built on the attachment theory of John Bowlby, who said that, from cradle to grave, human beings need to have a secure loving attachment bond with at least one other human being.