Some children with unpredictable or frightening care may try to make their environment more predictable through role-reversing and controlling behaviour. I think the way Bowlby approaches the whole issue of attachment and frame his theory can be regarded as the early form of what later i know as evolutionary psychology. La teoria dell'attaccamento è sicuramente una teoria molto affascinante, ma la trattazione è appesantita un po' troppo, proprio perché il libro nasce come raccolta di conferenze dell'autore. It is a series of essays that outlines Bowlby's theories of attachment styles and their determinants. The infant's drive to approach the caregiver for care and protection results in fear and increased rather than decreased anxiety.

Psychoanalysts had, at the time, gone way off on a tangent, completely detatching themselves from reality, and Bowlby was trying to set them back on track. As Bowlby himself points out in his introduction to this seminal childcare book, to be a successful parent means a lot of very hard work. Result: patient is uncertain whether something had happened and end up being guilty about making things up (therapist should weight evidence and ask probing questions, and unless there’s evidence or the patient is a pathological liar, accept patient’s story as a reasonable approximation to the truth. Also during this stage, children continue to learn to manage their feelings, co-operate with others and take into account the thoughts and feelings of others.

I am currently not entirely convinced by attachment theory, or at least not on the same scale he seems to see in the world, and this also influenced my opinion of the book. Here by model we mean the expected input-output behavior of a others that is heavily affected by how a primary care giver (usually the mom) responds to a child’s needs and communication. But it also considers how those relationships can enable the child to develop competence in the outside world of school, peer group and community.

Social workers and child care professionals wanting to effectively promote attachment and resilience in foster care and adoption. I found many of his precepts compatible with the client-centred therapy of Carl Rogers, which is the theoretical framework for counselling with which I am most familiar.Bowlby acknowledges the role of such adverse events of childhood as a child being scapegoated, unwanted, controlled by guilt-inducing techniques, or being identified with a grandparent with whom the parent has had a difficult relationship. BUT, family ties and the knowledge that the secure base is still available in times of difficulty remain very important. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.