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intervention for children with attachment disorders
The central principles of intervention for children with attachment disorders are based on the need to allow these children to develop an alternative, more secure, attachment relationship to their current carer, a clinician or therapeutic setting. Any attempt to do this should only proceed if the child’s current safety is assured and if there has […]
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Application to attachment disorders
Application to attachment disorders Where an attachment disorder is evident, specialist intervention is required from an experienced clinician. There is relatively scant evidence on effective treatment for established attachment disorders. Issues of intervention are frequently raised in situations where children with adverse early attachment experiences are placed with alternative carers and continue to have difficulties […]
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Application to infant–parent interventions
Application to infant–parent interventions Attachment theory grew and developed out of ideas and observations arising from both the internal world (psychoanalytic theory) and what can be observed and measured (developmental psychology, ethology). Similarly, infant–parent therapies can be understood as working across both the domains of observed behaviours and interactions between infant and parent, and their […]
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Approaches to intervention in infant mental health
Approaches to intervention in infant mental health Interventions in the infant period have the core aim of promoting infant development and motivating infant potential. Interventions may occur or be targeted at multiple levels of the individual, family and social system. For example the focus may be the infant individually, the infant–parent relationship, the family, the […]
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The significance of early experience
The significance of early experience Debate about the significance of the infant experience has been going on for some time and is referred to as the ‘continuity debate’. Some theorists see infant experience as crucial in setting lifelong, relatively unchanging patterns. Discontinuity theorists argue that later life experience can change early patterns and that infancy […]
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types of temperaments in children
types of temperaments in children Temperament has been defined as ‘a behavioural and physiological profile that is under some genetic control…a changing, but coherent, profile of behaviour and emotion linked to an inherited physiology’ (Kagan, 1997, p. 269). Thomas and Chess (1977) originally suggested three temperamental or behavioural categories (easy, slow to warm up and […]
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secure attachment style in relationships
secure attachment style in relationships An attachment relationship is an enduring affective relationship with a particular preferred individual, usually the person who provides most of the primary caregiving, and from whom the infant seeks security and comfort. A major developmental task for an infant in the first year of life is the establishment of an […]
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Normal infant emotional development
Normal infant emotional development Infant research has provided considerable information about the infant’s innate capacities for social and environmental interaction from birth. The newborn baby has an amazing range of communication strategies. For example, newborns turn their heads in response to a familiar parental voice or smell, show a preference for face-shaped patterns over other […]
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Influences on the field of infant mental health
Influences on the field of infant mental health Understanding of early childhood development has been influenced by psychoanalytic theory, object relations theory, attachment theory and developmental psychology. Infant research has contributed to an understanding of the capacities of the newborn to interact with the environment and to organise the self and experiences in an active […]
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Why is infant mental health important?
Why is infant mental health important? The relationship between any particular early experience and later infant outcome is not a simple linear one (Zeanah, Boris & Larrieu, 1997). Development proceeds as a complex series of interactions between the innate qualities of infants, their experiences in interaction with their physical and social world, and their capacity […]
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