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The Infant-Mother Tie

The Infant-Mother Tie. Promoting Infant-Mother Relationships. Attachment Relationships in Infancy. Attachment theory is the joint product of John Bowlby & Mary Ainsworth. John Bowlby: - Interested in personality development. - Struck by the apparent effects of separation from and loss.

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The Infant-Mother Tie

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  1. The Infant-Mother Tie Promoting Infant-Mother Relationships

  2. Attachment Relationships in Infancy Attachment theory is the joint product of John Bowlby & Mary Ainsworth. John Bowlby: - Interested in personality development. - Struck by the apparent effects of separation from and loss. - Protest – Despair – Detachment.

  3. Child-mother relationships a necessity Do not take children away Warned against the neglect of children Criticized hospital handling practices

  4. Mary Ainsworth: Uganda: The first empirical observational-longitudinal study on infant-mother attachment relationships. Baltimore: The development of individual differences in attachment relationships during the first year of an infant’s life.

  5. Central Concepts Attachment Attachment Behavior Attachment Behavioral System Working Models Secure Base Phenomenon Security Sensitivity

  6. Attachment Development Orientation and signals with limited discrimination of figure Orientation and signals directed towards one or more discriminated figure(s) Maintenance of proximity to a discriminated figure (locomotion & signals) Formation of a Goal-Corrected partnership

  7. Individual Differences in Attachment All children form attachment relationships with main caregivers, but not all relationships are equal. They vary in their quality. The Strange Situation Secure Insecure: Avoidant, Resistant, Disorganized

  8. Quality of Care and Attachment Sensitivity-Insensitivity, Cooperation-Interference, Acceptance-Rejection, Accessibility-Ignoring. Factors associated with that individual differences in sensitivity: Mental representations Concurrent circumstances

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