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| Overview of Attachment Theory |
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| Bowlby (1940s) - Attachment theory is based on the notion that children will feel secure in their relationship with their parent to the extent that the parent provides consistent, warm, and sensitive care. When this happens, children learn to use the parent as a secure base, that is, they are willing to turn to the parent in times of need, the parent is available and responsive, and they are able to be comforted by the parent in a way that allows them to feel better and to return to other activities. |
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| Overview of Strange Situation Procedure |
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| Ainsworth (1970s) - This procedure involves separating children from their parents and then observing how the chidlren respond when reunited with the parents. In this procedure, children exhibited three primary set of strategies: secure, avoidant, and ambivalent-resistant. In addition to hypotheses about secure base functioning childhood, attachment theory also predicts that childhood attachment patterns will predict subsequent child functioning with regard to the development of the sense of self, others, and interpersonal functioning. |
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| Attachment Failure Can Result In? |
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| In the language of attachment theory, individuals who had a secure attachment to early caregivers are expected to be able to acknowledge negative emotions and subsequently employ effective coping strategies to deal with them. The failure to effectively manage emotional experiences in the ways described by attachment theory represents a common feature of many forms of psychopathology. |
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| Development of Depression |
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| Cole-Detke and Kobak (1996) individuals characterized by a pattern of preoccupied attachment become overly focused on their negative views of the self and others, leading to ineffective coping methods and therefore perpetuating a cycle of self-blame, negative affect, and hopelessness. |
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| Development of Anxiety = Warren (1997) found a relation between ambivalent-resistant attachment in childhood and anxiety disorders in childhood and adolescence even when accounting for maternal anxiety and newborn temperament. |
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| Development of Eating Disorders |
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| (Cole-Detke and Kobak, 1996) Symptoms of eating disorders may function to alleviate separation distress occurring in adolescence by maintaining the availability of the caregivers. In addition, it has been suggested that eating disorder symptoms, in particular bingeing, may function to regulate negative affect by decreasing awareness of anxious feelings about attachment figures. |
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| Disorganized attachment is related to what behaviors? Says who? |
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| Aggressive behaviors - Disorganized attachment behaviors, Disorganized attachment predicts aggression in school-age children with other family factors controlled. (Lyons-Roth, 1996) MA |
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