Sentences with phrase «of insecure attachment responded»

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But the effect of insecure attachment doesn't stop there: This way of attaching is how the child will respond in stressful situations in every relationship throughout his life, including marriage, parenting, even on the job.

Timely and appropriate maternal sensitivity to the infant's behaviour is a central component of mother - infant relationships and healthy social and emotional development.20, 21 Maternal depression may disrupt the maternal - child relationship, 22 contribute to maternal failure to respond appropriately to infant signals23 and lead to insecure attachments.24 A mother's failure to respond to the crying infant can have important immediate and lasting consequences for infant development.

Usually, these intervention programs are designed to enhance parental sensitivity, the ability to accurately perceive children's attachment signals, and the ability to respond to these signals in a prompt and appropriate manner.2 The ultimate goal of these interventions is to turn insecure - avoidant (A) and insecure - resistant (C) attachment relationships into secure (B) child - parent attachment relationships.2 In a few programs, the intervention is not only directed at sensitive parental behaviour but also at maternal mental attachment representations, as in the STEEP (Steps Toward Effective Enjoyable Parenting) program described by Egeland.

What this has taught us is that both types of children with insecure attachments want to be reconnected and feel comforted and safe again, but avoiders don't think their parents are going to respond, so they don't outright ask for it, they just gain physical proximity and silently hope their parents will comfort them.