Enhancing Early Attachments: Theory, Research, Intervention, and Policy.
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Enhancing early attachments.
Not exact matches
These include the promotion of breastfeeding to
enhance the quality of relationships between parents and their babies, recognising how
attachment behaviours in these
early years influence a child's future educational attainment, social skills, self - efficacy and self - worth.
The Circle of Security (COS) is a relationship based
early intervention program designed to
enhance attachment security between parents / care givers and children.
While negative patterns of relating existed
earlier, as partners learn to reflect on their part of the cycle, their sharing of this struggle helps them to turn to each other, another way of
enhancing their
attachment.
One important role of a secure
attachment relationship in
early life is to
enhance the ability of the brain to regulate social and emotional processes.
Circle of Security The Circle of Security is a relationship based
early intervention program designed to
enhance attachment security between parents and children.
Brain plasticity is more easily accessible
early in life, underscoring the importance of appropriate intervention with young children in order to not only
enhance attachment, but also to support the development of appropriate affect regulation, interpersonal skills, and cognition.
A recent meta - analysis of
early childhood interventions asserted that brief interventions (< 5 sessions) focusing on increasing maternal sensitivity and
enhancing infant
attachment security were more effective than long - term intervention.23 In contrast, Hennighausen and Lyons - Ruth cited evidence that disorganized
attachment responds best to home - based, intensive and long - term interventions.
All agreed, however, that more research was needed to illuminate the conditions under which
early day care did and did not undermine ̶ or
enhance ̶
attachment security.