When caregivers reject children's bids for reassurance, children tend to
develop avoidant attachments, turning away from caregivers when distressed.
Not exact matches
Children who experienced
avoidant attachments with their primary caregiver can go on to
develop dismissive
attachment styles in adulthood.
The scientific story has
developed from
attachment as care - giving and protective (or the opposite: deprivation, inadequacy, or insecure), to how
attachment may influence an individual's sense of themselves, their part in relationships, and their capacity to problem - solve and look after themselves —
attachment styles, described as «inner working models» in the psychoanalytic literature which may persist into adult life (as secure, anxious,
avoidant, or disorganised).
Contrary to meta - analytic findings of the earlier literature that focused only on the effects of the amount of care provided without adequately controlling for selection effects, the NICHD Study found that a number of features of child care (the amount of child care, age of entry into care, and the quality and stability of child care) were unrelated to the security of infant — mother
attachments or to an increased likelihood of
avoidant attachments, except when mothers provided less sensitive parenting of their infant.11 For the children who received less sensitive maternal care, extended experience with child care, lower - quality child care, and more changes in child care arrangements were each associated with an increased likelihood of
developing an insecure
attachment with their mothers.
They
develop anxious and
avoidant attachment styles and behave like pursuers and distances described in ``
They
develop anxious and
avoidant attachment styles and behave like pursuers and distances described in «The Dance of Intimacy.»
An insecure -
avoidant child will
develop an internal working model in which it sees itself as unworthy because its primary
attachment figure has reacted negatively to it during the sensitive period for
attachment formation.
In this presentation, Dr. Muller will introduce therapeutic techniques he has
developed specifically for this population, which are detailed in his new book, Trauma and the
Avoidant Client:
Attachment - Based Strategies for Healing.
This workshop focuses on techniques Dr. Muller
developed specifically for this population, included in his award - winning academic book, Trauma and the
Avoidant Client:
Attachment - Based Strategies for Healing (2010, W.W. Norton).
An overview of all American studies with non-clinical samples (21 samples with a total of 1,584 infants, conducted between 1977 and 1990) shows that about 67 % of the infants were classified as secure, 21 % as insecure -
avoidant and 12 % as insecure - ambivalent.5 A central issue in
attachment theory and research is what causes some infants to
develop an insecure
attachment relationship while other infants feel secure.
We can
develop a secure, anxious - preoccupied, dismissive -
avoidant, or fearful -
avoidant attachment, one that reemerges and shows itself in our most intimate adult relationships.