Sentences with phrase «attachment to a mother figure»

Rutter argues that these problems are not due solely to the lack of attachment to a mother figure, as Bowlby claimed, but to factors such as the lack of intellectual stimulation and social experiences which attachments normally provide.

Not exact matches

Nonetheless, who would deny that everyone needs a mother and a father and that everyone will inevitably form an attachment to some mother or father figure should one's natural parents prove inadequate?

To allow «overnights» away from his primary attachment figure (mother) and in an unfamiliar setting would be stressful and traumatic, with long - range and even lifetime negative consequences!

Many studies have compared the ways in which 1 - 2 year olds relate to their «attachment» figures and have found that the closeness of father and baby is almost identical to that of mother and baby.

But the attachment figure doesn't have to be the mother or even a parent.

Babies are born with the tendency to display certain innate behaviors (called social releasers) which help ensure proximity and contact with the mother or attachment figure (e.g., crying, smiling, crawling, etc.)-- these are species - specific behaviors.

The last limitations to the attachment model is that the mother is viewed as the primary attachment figure, when in fact, a father or sibling can have the same type of attachment with the infant at the same time.

According to Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., psychiatrist and leading expert on trauma and how it affects the brain, as many as 80 % of abused and neglected infants and children develop disorganized / disoriented attachment relationships, which are expressed as unpredictable approach and avoidance patterns towards mother, the inability to accept comfort from caregivers, rage at attachment figures, and pathological self - regulatory behaviors.

To allow «overnights» away from his primary attachment figure (mother) and in an unfamiliar setting would be stressful and traumatic, with long range and even lifetime negative consequences!

If the child seems disturbed - continues to cry, etc., consideration should be given to a prompt return to the mother or other primary attachment figure.

Research on resilient children indicates that they need only one secure attachment figure to be successful, and it can be a mother, father, relative, or other caring adult.

Yet anti-father myths persist, such as: that infants and toddlers have only one primary «attachment figure»; that overnighting away from mothers causes anxiety or maladjustment in all infants and toddlers; that children prefer living with only one parent, and shared parenting isn't worth the hassle; that shared parenting works only in the case of harmonious divorces; and that the quality of children's relationships with their fathers is not related to how much time they spend together.

Their husbands, as well as therapists and other adults, are easily manipulated by kids with reactive attachment disorder and only show their other sides to mother figures.

In attachment theory, «maternal deprivation» refers to the absence or lack of affection from a mother or mother figure towards a child at any point in early childhood development (Bowlby, 1951).

And, having repeatedly misrepresented research on infant - mother (I use «mother» here synonymously with mother - substitute or primary caregiver) attachment, as «parents» and «caregivers,» implying that they are all equal (Lamb's own research has found otherwise), and making the completely misleading statement that «most infants» are attached to «both parents» this ostensibly indicates... that children suffer separation issues from all kinds of human beings, that there is no particular qualitative differences between one of the «attachment figures» or another, that separation from one is like separation from another, and that all of this separation stress is ameliorated if the child simply is left with another fungible «attachment figure» aka here «the other parent.»

In early childhood development, attachment is so important that a lack of connection to a secure attachment figure (most likely the mother, father, or other major caregiver) who was reliable and available results in physical alterations to the anatomy and chemistry of the brain, such as reduced brain activity and less developed cortexes.

An infant must be fed by the primary parental figure, usually the mother, and must have the mother present during severely physically painful events in order for a parental attachment bond to form, and either a consistent omission of the mother from this process or an alteration between two people (the original mother and the adoptive mother) can cause either an insecure attachment or disorganized attachment from the parent to the child.

Two major reasons for this view are (1) the strong similarities between monkeys and humans in social behavior, endocrine function, brain structure, and degree and duration of mother - infant nurturance (Harlow and Zimmerman 1959; Kalin and Shelton 2003; Mendoza and Mason 1997), or, in the unique case of titi monkeys, the extent of biparental care (Hennessy 1997); and (2) the extent to which monkeys fulfill Ainsworth's criteria of attachment (Ainsworth 1972), namely, unequivocal distress upon complete separation from the attachment figure and alleviation of this distress (both behavioral and physiological) upon reunion / interaction with the attachment figure (Mendoza and Mason 1997).

Another problem with the attachment model is that «the list of attachment behaviors is limited to those that occur with the primary attachment figure, typically the mother.

Most of theses routines are associated with proximity to the mother who is usually the primary attachment figure.

But the attachment figure doesn't have to be the mother or even a parent.

This quiz, based on the Experiences in Close Relationships - Relationship Structures assessment developed by R. Chris Fraley at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, is intended to help you explore and better understand your patterns of attachment in various close relationships (i.e. your attachment style, based on attachment theory), including your relationship with your spouse or romantic partner, as well as your relationships with your mother (or mother - figure) and father (or father - figure).

The next phase, attachment - in - the making phase, takes place from three to four months and is marked by an infant's emerging preference to be held by familiar figures, although it is important to note that the figure does not necessarily have to be the mother.

«No variables, it is held, have more far - reaching effects on personality development than have a child's experiences within his family: for, starting during the first months of his relations with his mother figure, and extending through the years of childhood and adolescence in his relations with both parents, he builds up working models of how attachment figures are likely to behave towards him in any of a variety of situations; and on those models are based all his expectations, and therefore all his plans for the rest of his life.»

It explains why strong, consistent and healthy attachment figures are so important to children and why children that are neglected, abandoned, or separated from their mother may become frantic or cry uncontrollably until contact is made again.

To some, this was because day care involved the infant's separation from mother (or other principle caregiver), as separation from the attachment figure was inherently stressful.

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Alternatively, MCAST assessments of attachment to mother and father, separately, may be subject to cultural bias: mother figures placed in the kitchen cooking (as prompted by the interviewer in «hurt knee» and «tummy ache») is entirely consistent with Italian cultural expectations and, very likely, also with the children's experiences.