Sentences with phrase «endured by the infant»

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Spokeswoman Jennipher Dickens, whose infant son was shaken by his father at the age of seven weeks, said in a statement: «As a result of the child abuse my son endured in the form of Shaken Baby Syndrome, my son now has irreversible brain damage.

As defined by Bowlby (1969) and Ainsworth (1973), pioneers in the study of parent - infant relationships, attachment is an enduring affective bond characterized by a tendency to seek and maintain proximity to a specific person, particularly under stress.

Animal research also makes clear that withdrawing parental behaviours that fail to soothe the infant's fearful arousal are associated with enduring hyper - arousal of the stress response system.12, 13 Therefore, Lyons - Ruth, Bronfman and Atwood suggest that both fearful affect generated by the parent and fearful affect generated from other sources in the context of parental emotional unavailability may contribute to infant disorganization.14, 15 A spectrum of parental behaviours has been shown by meta - analysis to be associated with infant disorganization.