Imporatance of Secure Attachment in Human lifespan PDF
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Running Head: SECURE ATTACHMENT1Importance of Secure Attachment in Human Lifespan DevelopmentStudent nameSchool NameCourse Title
IMPORATANCE OF SECURE ATTACHMENT IN HUMAN LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT2Secure AttachmentAt the birth stage, there are two emotional responses that infant exhibit: attraction and withdrawal. Attraction is for those things that are pleasant to them and bring happiness, stimulation, and comfort. And they withdraw from unpleasant simulations that bring discomfort and sadness. Attachment theories made an important contribution to early childhood experience. They helped in the understanding of the infant reactions to environmental stimuli and how they develop. An American psychologist John Bowlby developed the first theory of attachment.According to Bowlby, (1973, 1980), the attachment is the experience that an infant gets with caregivers that shape their expectations and beliefs on self, the world, and interactions with others. According to him the quality and timing of attachment could determine the levels of development in later life.The child-parent bonding serves as a perfect predictor of the child future relationships. The first experience and relationship with a parent apply to future relationships’ experiences of the child. In other words, quality early life relationships with the parent give the child positive perspectives on the future relationships and experience expectations (Gearily, 2005). He further proposed that the caregiver or a parent must focus on two main goals in infant life. One is creating the basic sense of trust in the world of the child. The other one is creating the allowance of emotional regulation. When these goals are achieved, the infant bonds well with the caregiver.Furthermore, satisfactory attachment gives more exploration to the environment guided by the trust of the caregiver.Some scholars have researched on continuity of attachment from infancy to adolescence and adulthood in both low and high-risk variables (Hamilton, 2000; Waters, Merrick, Crowell, &Albersheim, 2000; Lewis. Feiring & Rosenthal, 2000; Weinfeld, Srouf, & Egeland, 2000). Their
IMPORATANCE OF SECURE ATTACHMENT IN HUMAN LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT3research reveals that divorce, single parenthood, life-threatening, illnesses, drug abuse, deaths and other life events show attachment insecurity.Attachment formationThe primary Importance of early attachment is the quality of mother love and close bond between the infant and caregiver which has a tremendous and long-term impact on the child. Thefacts from psychologists have established that emotionally healthy, happy, harmonious, constructive, and productive depends on the quality of attachment a child gets from the early life.These relationships between infant and caregiver results to either secure or insecure attachment. This means that it may either be positive or negative. Insecure attachment is beyond the scope of this report. Secure attachment is created when the mother or the caregiver provides an environment where all the needs of the infant are met. These needs are met depending on sensitivity and appropriateness. From infant perspectives, it means that the caregiver observes and understands her needs. By giving signals to stimuli, the infant can communicate with the caregiver, and she expects a sensitive and appropriate response. This attachment can also be created when the caregiver holds or cuddles the infant in a comforting way. Fostered secure attachments build interactive harmony, and create better understanding and response mechanism of the caregiver. The caregiver creates interest in the infant’s actions and tries to interpret and understand the communications signals. This way, the infant growth, and development of enhanced. Infants and toddlers love to play and explore the unknown out of their curiosity. To fostersecurity, caregivers, provide toys and activities which the child shows interests. It is important to give them time to play what is interesting to him/her until it is no longer interesting.
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