FRHD 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Child Abuse, John Bowlby
1 Jun 2018
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Why Attachment
• Foundation of all relationships
• Impacts all aspects of development
• The beginning of parenting
History of Attachment
• Freud
o First to focus on mother-infant relationships
• Hull
o Drive reduction theory
o Reduced to basic physical needs
▪ Hunger, constant conflict
History of Bowlby
• Parents believed too much parental affection and attention would spoil the child
• Parents spent minimal time
• Sent to boarding school at 7
• University: spent time with delinquent children
• World Health organization commissioned Bowlby to write report on metal health of homeless
children
o The infant and young child should experience a warm, intimate, and continuous
relationship with his mother in which both find satisfaction and enjoyment
Behaviour Ecology Theory – Bowlby
• Universal
• Social interaction, communication > feeling, physical contact
• Innate mutual responsiveness and attraction between parents and infants
• Ifats’ aishess eliits potetie esposes fo adults
• Baies’ ig, sukig, silig, lookig at caregiver preferentially, have no effect of orienting
caregiver
Ainsworth
• All infants are attached but differ in sense of security
• Vie othe as seue ase
• First relationship serves as the foundation for all others
o Internal working model
• Ease of comfortig ifat’s distess i the ualit of attahet
• Observing distress
Experiment: The Strange Situation
• Parent and infant brought into room by research assistant
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Document Summary
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