2. ATTACHMENT IS AN EMOTIONAL BOND IN WHICH
A PERSONS SENSE OF SECURITY IS BOUND UP
IN THE RELATIONSHIP
3. THANKS TO AINSWORTH, WE HAVE A
SYSTEM TO ESTABLISH BETWEEN SECURE
ATTACHMENT AND TWO TYPES OF
INSECURE ATTACHMENT (AMBIVALENT, AND
AVOIDANT), WITH A FOURTH TYPE CALLED
DISORGANIZED/DISORIENTED ATTACHMENT
5. QUALITY OF ATTACHMENT CAN BE EITHER
CONSISTENT OR CHANGEABLE
Waters, Treboux, Crowell, Merrick, and Albersheim noticed from a study that
when a person experiences a major upheaval, such as the death of a loved
one, a serious illness, or physical or sexual abuse, their attachment
classification changed over an interval of 20 years.
http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/attachment/courses/620/pdf_files/stability2000.pdf
6. KNOWING THERE ARE CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS
THAT INFLUENCE THE ATTACHMENT PROCESS IS
CRUCIAL
Biringen showed us that when parents who are too
stressed about their own work, school, finances,
family issues, etc. they might not realize that they
could be depriving their child of important
emotional bonds.
7. • Sometimes it’s the little things that go the long
way. Such as Smiling when a baby smiles, talking
to him or her when they are vocal, and comforting
them when they cry. Providing them with what is
called contingent responsiveness
• Studies have shown that when ANY type of insecure attachment
is present, a low level of parental responsiveness is bound to be
an ingredient
8. MARITAL & SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS
• Infants whose
parents are
married are more
likely to have
secure
attachment.
It could be the marital staus, but also married
parents typically have more education, and are less
likely to be poor than parents in other groups
9. MENTAL HEALTH OF THE CAREGIVER
• Coulthard and Harris (2003) found that
babies who interact more with
depressed mothers express fewer
positive and more negative
emotions. Some are even resistant to
have their mothers nurse them.
• The problem with panicked mothers as
well as depressed mothers, is that they
exhibit behaviors that interfere with
synchrony.
10. LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES
OF ATTACHMENT QUALITY
• Not only are children with secure attachment more
prone to be more sociable, have more infinite
relationships, have better grades, and have higher self
esteem, but also, studies have found the very same
model of attachment we are raised in, is the one we
will be parenting our own children
Daniel Siegals book explains
this exceptionally!
13. As we are more aware of the
impact of attachment on our
lives and those around us, we
will be able to make better
knowledge based decisions to
aid in securing healthy
relationships
