These relationships serve the same function for adults as for children; they provide a secure base which offers comfort and reassurance and at the same time, allows us to operate in the world with confidence. The author presents attachment theory in a historical fashion each time by first stating what psychologists used to think and how new findings changed it. Some children with unpredictable or frightening care may try to make their environment more predictable through role-reversing and controlling behaviour. In a nutshell, attachment theory categorizes personality development into three types (at least at the time of writing the book): secure, anxious resistant, and anxious avoidant.

Bowlby observed that these models are established in the first few years of life and as children get older models retain some flexibility but become increasingly resistant to change. It is safer and more comfortable to be self-reliant and this also makes it more likely that the caregiver will stay close. Bowlby’s work showed that the early interactions between infant and caregiver have a profound impact on an infant's social, emotional, and intellectual growth. It is fairly well explained, there are a lot of studies cited, and some lectures were very interesting. He mostly builds up on pscyhoanalysis to propose how a therapist should provide the patient with a secure base over which they can explore and revisit their childhood memories and reconstruct representational models of self and others.Et puis pour le bouquiniste anglais qui nous régale avec des livres d'occasion dans un très bon état et dont les réceptions se font toujours avant la date. It provides a valuable framework and strengths-based approach for making sense of fostered and adopted children’s needs and behaviours and sets out the dimensions of caregiving that can support children to thrive and to fulfil their potential. Caregivers abdicate the caregiving role, experiencing themselves as out of control and become hostile/helpless to protect the child. All of us, from the cradle to the grave, are happiest when life is organised as a series of excursions, long or short, from the secure base provided by our attachment figures. We have chosen to represent this process in a circular model, the caregiving cycle, which shows the inter-connectedness of caregiver/child minds and behaviour, as well as their ongoing movement and change.

Also of interest is the idea that these symptoms may be relayed or passed from one generation to the next as behavior is learned and absorbed and displayed again. If, for example, the baby finds that his feelings of hunger and his accompanying crying behaviour results in a prompt response from a loving adult who makes him feel better, he will learn that certain of his behaviours are linked with the positive behaviours of his caregiver. In these circumstances, children will find it hard to let adults come close enough to establish trusting relationships and provide a secure base. It's a must-read for any psychologist, psychiatrist, sociologist or social scientist of any sort that wants to understand people--both on the micr0 and macro scale.It is a series of essays that outlines Bowlby's theories of attachment styles and their determinants. The Strange Situation involves the infant experiencing a series of brief separations and reunions while their reactions are observed.

The caregiver may draw on their own ideas about what children need or what makes a good parent from their own experiences or from what they have learned from training. A través de una serie de conferencias realizadas por el autor, se exploran las consecuencias del apego en el desarrollo de la personalidad, los factores que influyen en su construcción y la necesidad de su consideración en la clínica.It is very medical, but does address the significance of having healthy attachment in the first year. An experienced social worker and academic, she has a special interest in attachment theory, child development and child placement, especially long-term foster care. This may make them a source of anxiety rather than comfort for the infant, but does not mean that they are necessarily neglectful or abusive.