Infants of these mothers tend to show approach -
avoidance behavior towards their mothers.
Not exact matches
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.
* Problem reactions would include unprovoked and unwarranted aggression, extreme resource - guarding
behavior, difficulty to recover after panicking, and strong
avoidance, fear or aggressive tendencies
towards things that would be common to everyday environments.
Specifically, parental pressure to eat was strongly associated with child food
avoidance and parental restrictive
behavior towards children with big appetites was especially pronounced when parents were concerned about child weight status.