As well as being connected to pleasure and happiness, oxytocin can also
promote social attachment, lowering our defences and increasing trust [1].
Not exact matches
We believe that a greater understanding of
attachment theory can help to
promote social cohesion and better outcomes in terms of physical and emotional health.
When a father's influence starts in early childhood, this can help with forming secure
attachments,
promoting social and emotional development, and influencing school readiness and success.
It is really important that a puppy experience human touch from birth to
promote a human / canine
attachment and encourage the puppy's ability to develop
social attachments with others as it grows.
Oxytocin is a
social hormone; when it's released, it
promotes attachment between individuals, strengthens bonds and trusts, and decreases anxiety and levels of cortisol.
A package of interventions that trained parents and teachers to
promote children's academic competencies and bonding to school, and that developed children's
social competencies and skills to resist health - compromising influences produced greater commitment and
attachment to school, less school misbehavior, and better academic achievement 6 years after intervention.
The theory hypothesizes that when
social groups produce strong bonds of
attachment and commitment in members, and
promote clear standards for behavior, these groups increase behavior consistent with those standards and prevent behavior that violates them.
Aside from maintaining and deepening
attachments, overnights provide children with a diversity of
social, emotional, and cognitively stimulating experiences that
promote adaptability and healthy development.
We believe that a greater understanding of
attachment theory can help to
promote social cohesion and better outcomes in terms of physical and emotional health.
Additionally, EFFECT aims to increase protective factors — family functioning and resilience,
social support, knowledge of parenting and child development, concrete support, and nurturing and
attachment — to reduce the risk of child maltreatment and to
promote positive family wellbeing.
EFFECT aims to improve children's wellbeing by helping fathers become more involved, responsible, and committed to their children through parent education skills, guidance, and support systems.17 Additionally, EFFECT aims to increase protective factors — family functioning and resilience,
social support, knowledge of parenting and child development, concrete support, and nurturing and
attachment — to reduce the risk of child maltreatment and to
promote positive family wellbeing.18 In addition to investing in fatherhood programs through EFFECT, Texas is committed to considering a broader system of supports for fathers.
Promoting First Relationships is an evidence - based program designed by Dr. Jean Kelly at the University of Washington to help parents support their babies»
social and emotional development and healthy
attachment.
Oxytocin is a hormone that
promotes bonding during the early stages of relationship development, positive feelings toward relationship partners1, including feelings of trust.2 In fact, oxytocin has been implicated in a variety of positive relationship behaviors, including
attachment,
social memory, sexual behavior, and orgasm, as well as maternal caring and bonding behaviors.3 As a result, the media often refers to oxytocin as the «cuddle hormone.»
Studies in general have not been able to find direct associations of mother - infant
attachment with child care arrangements and with mothers»
social support systems [12], but in high
social risk groups, lack of support correlated with higher rates of insecure
attachment relationships [24 — 26], while extensive support was found to
promote security [27, 28].
(PDF - 564 KB) Center on the
Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (2011) Explains
attachment and its importance, describes the characteristics of children with secure or insecure
attachment relationships, notes cultural differences in
attachment, and provides strategies teachers and caregivers can use to
promote children's secure
attachment.
Joy Rees is a specialist adoption
social worker with a particular interest in
promoting strong family
attachments through her innovative and sensitive construction of «family friendly» life storybooks.
Promoting early
social and emotional development in babies and toddlers has a powerful impact on the establishment of healthy and secure
attachment relationships.
Dr. Lane Strathearn, Director of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and Physician Director at the University of Iowa's Center for Disabilities and Development, presents information regarding research conducted in the
Attachment and Neurodevelopment Lab, discusses how face - to - face parent - infant interaction
promotes healthy
social and emotional development, explains the mechanisms through which adverse childhood experiences may adversely impact child development, and explores some specific examples of parental psychopathology and potential effects on parenting capacity.
These sessions follow an interactive curriculum that is designed to foster attitudes and skills that will
promote behaviors that reduce risk of dropout, with particular emphasis on
promoting school
attachment; achievement motivation; peer acceptance;
social competence; and skills for anger management, decision - making, and goal - setting.
In this framework,
social stressful experiences can activate various behaviors of
attachment for a significant person that can help to control and soothe them to
promote individual's well - being.
[jounal] Mikulincer, M. / 2001 /
Attachment theory and reactions to other's needs: Evidence that activation of the sense of attachment security promotes empathetic response / Journal of Personality and social Psychology 81: 1
Attachment theory and reactions to other's needs: Evidence that activation of the sense of
attachment security promotes empathetic response / Journal of Personality and social Psychology 81: 1
attachment security
promotes empathetic response / Journal of Personality and
social Psychology 81: 1205 ~ 1224
When a father's influence starts in early childhood, this can help with forming secure
attachments,
promoting social and emotional development, and influencing school readiness and success.
This observation is consistent with the principles of
attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969) which claims that inconsistent nurturing from a parent can
promote attachment anxiety and avoidance — both of which have been shown to relate to low
social skills (DiTommaso, Brannen - McNulty, Ross, & Burgess, 2003).
Each of the five ABS areas will deliver science - and evidence - based preventative programmes that comprise ante and postnatal support programmes targeting one or more of the following: (1)
social and emotional development — by addressing perinatal mental health problems, substance dependency and domestic violence as well as encouraging parenting practices that
promote attachment; (2) language development by encouraging parents to talk, read and sing to, and particularly to praise — their babies and toddlers, and by ensuring local childcare services emphasise language development; and (3) nutrition and obesity by encouraging breast feeding and
promoting good nutritional practices.
Historically, most
attachment - based interventions have focused on improving caregiver sensitivity (which could be defined as the capacity to read cues and signals accurately and respond promptly and appropriately), with the assumption that this would
promote secure child - caregiver
attachment, which in turn would be linked to positive
social and emotional outcomes.
Research findings suggest that an
attachment - based intervention should focus on improving caregiver sensitivity to
promote secure child - caregiver
attachment and the positive
social and emotional outcomes associated with secure
attachment.
The agency's home visitation intervention used the Parent Aides Nurturing and Developing With Adolescents curriculum.25 The curriculum was based on theories of human ecology,
attachment, and
social support, which emphasize that positive child development is
promoted by nurturing, empathetic parenting and is influenced by the characteristics of families and
social networks.25 (pp1 - 9), 26 The home visitor was to use the curriculum in weekly home visits with the teenager to teach and model nurturing parenting behaviors, encourage the teenager to continue with her education, make general assessments of health and
social problems, and initiate referral for early intervention when necessary.