But I think your point about grieving the loss of a biological connection, pregnancy, breastfeeding, etc is a good one, and here I think it's also done to encourage people to really think about the backgrounds of the children up for adoption and to learn
more about attachment issues and child trauma... Fertility treatment and adoption are really not interchangeable and I think it's good to have a break from one before embarking on the other.
Not exact matches
For each age group and each sleep
issue we'll talk
about in this guide, we've included tips and tricks that run the gamut from
attachment - style methods, to
more traditional «sleep training» ideas.
Finding the right answers to these questions becomes
more challenging when parents and teachers are concerned
about issues like
attachment and healthy development and do not want their discipline methods to undermine or sabotage these processes.
Read
more about working with
attachment injuries and betrayals in stage one in the two most recent
issues of the ICEEFT Community News — available to all ICEEFT members!
Louise's Story Louise urges adoptive parents to inform their children's schools
about attachment issues Read
More
For anyone craving
more information, I highly recommend Mindsight by Dan Siegel, which is a much denser book
about the science and complexities of adult
attachment issues, how they play out in real life, and what can realistically be done to resolve them.
Finding the right answers to these questions becomes
more challenging when parents and teachers are concerned
about issues like
attachment and healthy development and do not want their discipline methods to undermine or sabotage these processes.
However, research results indicated a low validity of the infant - father strange situation assessment for predicting subsequent psychosocial development.15 Rather, father - child interactive quality during play or exploration, and sensitive challenges to the young child's competencies seem to be better predictors of child development.16, 24 Another challenge to
attachment research is
more a measurement than a conceptual
issue: How do behavioural patterns of infant
attachment become patterns of verbal discourse
about attachment later?