Mother - infant and father -
infant attachment among families with alcoholic fathers.
Not exact matches
It has been suggested that increased physical contact between a mother and her newborn (holding) promotes greater maternal responsiveness and more secure
attachment between
infant and mother,
among other benefits.
This philosophy, termed «
Attachment Parenting» by its champion, pediatrician and father of eight Dr. William Sears (author of the popular child - care manual The Baby Book,
among others), sees
infants not as manipulative adversaries who must be «trained» to eat, sleep, and play when told, but as dependent yet autonomous human beings whose wants and needs are intelligible to the parent willing to listen, and who deserve to be responded to in a reasonable and sensitive manner.
Indeed, although they begin their article with the statement, «Frequent overnights were significantly associated with
attachment insecurity
among infants,» which is what the headlines captured world - wide, they end their article with, «The present study certainly does not resolve debates about frequent overnights and the wellbeing of very young children.»
Among the unexplored research findings were the discovery that early
attachment status can change, often as a result of negative life events; that maternal deprivation and other early losses are recoverable; and that
infants do not require one primary caregiver to thrive.
The influence of temperament and mothering on
attachment and exploration: An experimental manipulation of sensitive responsiveness
among lower - class mothers with irritable
infants
Enhancing
attachment organization
among maltreated
infants: Results of a randomized clinical trial.
The effect of the nurses and paraprofessionals on responsive mother - child interaction indicates that the program was operating as intended in helping parents provide more sensitive and responsive care for their children, which is thought to promote secure
attachment and healthy emotional and behavioral development.49 The reductions in subsequent pregnancies and increases in interpregnancy intervals are particularly important as short interpregnancy intervals increase the risk of child maltreatment (including
infant homicide
among teen parents) 50 and compromise families» economic self - sufficiency.51
The Impact of
Attachment - Based Interventions on the Quality of
Attachment Among Infants and Young Children.
Infants at social risk: Relationships
among infant maltreatment, maternal behavior, and
infant attachment behavior
These data suggest that a disturbance in the tendency to initiate episodes of joint attention with others may be indicative of early social — cognitive and social — emotional disturbance
among infants affected by disorganized
attachment status.
The estimated relative risk for disorganised
attachment among children carrying the 7 - repeat allele was four-fold, with the frequency of the 7 - repeat allele being 67 % in disorganised
infants as opposed to 20 % in securely attached
infants [95], and with 50 % frequencies in the insecure - avoidant and resistant groups.
Attachment disorganisation became a focus of developmental research when rarely occurring incoherent and contradictory
infant behaviours, not fitting the Ainsworth categories, appeared to be predominant
among maltreated or otherwise deprived groups of
infants and young children [6, 40].
Much research in psychology has focused on how forms of
attachment differ
among infants.
When teachers were asked which students,
among those with serious struggles in class, nonetheless had «a core of inner self - worth, an indication that... maybe they could get better,» they picked students that had secure
attachments as
infants.
The current study aimed to develop a reliable laboratory measure of socially indiscriminate forms of
attachment behavior based on direct observation and to validate the measure against assessments of early care and later behavior problems
among home - reared
infants.
Of the studies evaluating the effectiveness of
attachment - theory - based intervention programs, only two have dealt exclusively with maltreated children and parents who had been reported to child protection services.4, 5 These two studies, noteworthy for their randomized trial method, found a substantial reduction in disorganized
attachment behaviours and an increase in secure
attachment behaviours
among infants and young children resulting from
attachment - theory - based interventions.
Fact: Breastfeeding directly from the breast offers significant benefits over bottlefeeding expressed breastmilk for both mother and
infant, including,
among others:
infant jaw development,
infant control of milk flow, psychological
attachment of
infant to mother, health benefits for mother that pumping the breast does not achieve,
infant's ability to feed on demand, the stimulation and maintenance of mother» smilk supply that pumping alone can not achieve (and some women can not successfully pump), avoidance of problems such as that some babies will not move back and forth easily between bottle and breast, nutritional variation of milk during the breastfeeding, that it's cheaper and avoids the need for a variety of feeding equipment, and that breastmilk from the breast is always fresh and free of contaminents.
The influence of temperament and mothering on
attachment and exploration: An experimental manipulation of sensitive responsiveness
among lower class mothers with irritable
infants
[jounal] Goldsmith, H.H. / 1987 /
Attachment, temperament, and social referencing - interrelationship
among three domains of
infant affective behavior / Infant Behavior & Development 10 (2): 223
infant affective behavior /
Infant Behavior & Development 10 (2): 223
Infant Behavior & Development 10 (2): 223 ~ 231
The major results of this research are as follows: First, as to the variables related to the
infants, investigation results showed that there were negative correlations between the emotion regulation abilities, and activity, adaptability and mood, while there were positive correlations between the emotion regulation abilities, and
attachment, stability and cognitive development
among the
infants» temperaments.
We found 12 studies investigating
infant psychopathology or developmental impairments, 6 studies comparing mother - child interactions
among normal control mothers compared to mothers presenting with a mental or medical condition, and 5 studies investigating the subtypes of child
attachment styles.