Tammy James is a 35 year old African American female, born female. She currently has a boyfriend, but is not married, and she has also never been married. Tammy is currently working as a Home Care specialists for the elderly population in an agency which the agency provides healthcare and personal care in the patient’s home. She does not work there full-time, but her grandmother provides a lot of financial stability for the mother and her children. Tammy has three children ages five and seven years old, and a seven month old. Tammy and her three children live with her grandmother in a single-family home. Tammy’s speech is within normal limits (WNL), and rapport is becoming established successfully through weekly home visiting and unconditional positive regard. Tammy’s mood euthymic and affect is congruent to content, she is Oriented X4. She is neatly groomed in loose fitting pants, and tank top with sweater, closed-toe shoes, and her hair is pinned back. Tammy has had previous experience with Child Development …show more content…
When working with children Attachment Theory is typically utilized for the population. For the purpose of this assignment, and also for the gain of personal knowledge, I want to focus on the mother. Her theory is different from the child’s perspective in using Attachment Theory, although I could explore the mother’s attachment to her parents/guardians and her child, I will focus on a new aspect. While working with the mother, I will utilize Person Centered Theory and Therapy. Major concepts of this theory is self-actualizing tendency, showing and being empathetic, and congruency. Person Centered theory sees the nature of humans and change of world view by seeing the optimism and strengths based aspect of the client. It is one of the most positive and optimistic theories in Social Work Practice (Walsh,
On 12/216, there was a court hearing to allow DHS to have access to children and the home to seek medical care for Zoey following the DV incident. DHS is requesting out of home placement at this time.
The attachment theory links into practice because the whole concept of it is forming an attachment, this theory therefore links into practice because for example if a child has a strong bond/attachment such as recognising and being able to share problems and concerns then this gives children the confidence and support and they can acknowledge that and practitioners can meet their needs e.g. if a child forms an attachment with their caregiver then the care giver will become aware of their needs, their likes and dislikes and can put certain interventions into place, so just say a child only communicates with their caregiver and no one else then the caregiver will become aware of that and may do certain things one by one in order for them to communicate
A partnership model work around a theory of collaboration, understanding and and communication. It’s a way that helps to recognise how the best outcomes can happen for children when care, development and learning provision/a setting , a cooperatively together.
The Development of Attachment Theory and Its Strengths and Limitations English psychiatrist John Bowlby is a leading and influential figure within the history of social reform. His work has influenced social work policies and legislation relating to child psychiatry and psychology. Bowlby was trained as a psychoanalyst, and was influenced by Freudians theories, but became influenced again in his attachment theory by the work of ethologists. The ethologists theory concentrates on looking at the role parents play rather than only the child. Bowlby believes that parenting has strong ties with biology and it explains why there are such strong emotions attached.
According to Cowan, Cohn, Cowan, and Pearson (1996) studies focusing on attachment theory have shown significant relationships among the working model’s of early attachment histories in adults, their parenting behavior, and the attachment or diagnostic status of their children. Studies focusing on a family systems approach have shown relationships between the marital conflicts of parents, their parenting style, and the internalizing and externalizing problems of their children. Cowan et al. (1996) combined the ideas from attachment and family systems theories in a longitudinal study of nonclinical families in order to better understand possible links among parents’ attachment histories and the problematic behavior of their children in kindergarten. Attachment theorists use categories instead of continuous scales when looking at the variation in children’s adaptation and family functioning, minimizing the possible benefits of using continuous ratings to understand the variation in a child’s adaptation of family functioning.
Proximity. Proximity is an attachment behavior that is characterized by mother and child maintaining closeness so the child can be comforted when frightened. Proximity helps the child to reduce their fear by keeping physical closeness to his mother. The mother also provides the blueprint for their environment to teach the child what is safe and what is unsafe. During slavery mothers were prevented from keeping proximity to their children as way to keeps bonds from forming.
A number of interventions could prove helpful to the family describes in this case study. As a therapist, I believe it would be important to address the troubles attachment history between Sara and Angela, as it is undoubtedly playing a role in Angela’s inability to care for Adam adequately. Research in the field of mental health supports the idea that by providing adequate therapies to the parent to reduce stress and repair and improve relationships among the entire family, the child will fare far better than if treatment was offered only to the child or focused entirely on the correction of one member of the family’s behavior (p. 140). Educating the family on basic knowledge of child development, helping them to see the child’s “point of view”
As we have seen in Rose's counseling session, past relational patterns are elicited from exploration of the patients' past and early relationships. Key themes are: the degree of love and care (emotional warmth) they experienced in early life; the degree of neglect and abuse; and the types and qualities of core conflicts. In Rose's case, the key issue, as Dr. Berenson discovers over the course of the interview is the subtle manipulation of a mother by her child. She tests her and puts her through a lot of stress, to see how she responds; in this case losing sleep and stressing over the situation.
Family life can sometimes be perceived as chaotic and unreasonable when faced with challenges. However, from a systems theory perspective, these erratic behaviors can often be explained by the interdependent workings of the family itself and reveal reason within chaos. Applying the attachment theory to this theory, an explanation for a child’s reactions within the situation and in the future can be attributed to the relationship between the caregiver and the child. When considering the day I left my mother’s drug use in Mississippi for my father’s family in Florida, it is difficult to see reason in why I eventually moved back to Mississippi. However, looking back at our first Florida family dinner and the conversations each Hollowell had
Attachment theory is a psychological model that provides an influential, biologically driven explanation of how the parent-child interaction emerges and how it influences human development over a life span. The term attachment refers to the complex set of related thought processes and behaviors towards a primary care giver. The attachment behaviors are biologically guided by our natural instinct for protection and safety. This evolved behavioral system organizes human motivation, emotions, cognition, and memory. The attachment relationship that an individual creates in infancy effects their growth, behavior in other relationships, risk taking, and mental health through their human development (George, 2014, p. 97). I chose to use attachment theory to understand Carla’s current situation because the theory has been powerful in understanding the range of relationships patterns that develop between mother and their infants and children. It has been shown that children who experience inadequate parenting are at a much higher risk for an insecure attachment style and experience more interpersonal difficulties in adulthood especially with relationships. Carla grew up in a very inconsistent environment her whole life. Using attachment theory I am analyzing how her childhood shaped who she is as a woman and the choices she made that ultimately brought her to where she is today.
Many psychologists have come and gone, and many different theoretical orientations have been developed. With each orientation has come a new perspective on development, behaviour and mental processes. Some are similar, yet others could not be more contradictory. Attachment is one such theoretical orientation, developed by John Bowlby out of his dissatisfaction with other existing theories. Although Bowlby rejected psychoanalytical explanations for early infant bonds, the theory of attachment was influenced in part by the principles of psychoanalysis; in particular the observations by Ana Freud and Dorothy Burlingham of young children separated from
To begin with attachment theory, first everyone should understand what the attachment is. According to attachment means bonding between a child and caregiver or vice versa. The attachment theory is the theory that describes the long term interpersonal relationship between the humans. Also, it can be defined as the strong bond between parent and child, and later in peer and romantic relationship (Metzger, Erdman, Ng 85). It generates a specific fact that how the humans react in relationships when they get hurt, separated from loved ones and perceiving a threat. Basically the two main types of attachment are secure and insecure. Secure attachment is the attachments where mother and father are available for their child and during that time child demonstrates his or her stress and reestablish the connection (Metzger, Erdman, Ng 87). Insecure attachment is the attachment where parents are not regularly in touch with their children or they ignore their child which built a failed emotion communication (Metzger, Erdman, Ng 87). Also, it may be repeated from one generation to another until it is not recovered. However, as a result of attachment theory, it is so important for children to know about it and there are also several emotional effects on children when their parents leave to go to another county due to their connections or bond between them.
Attachment occurs in toddlerhood and this is when a child starts to create an emotional bond with the significant people in their life, mostly their parents/ caregivers. The reason why children “attach” is because it provides safety, security, the opportunity to learn new things, and it is the start of how they will act in relationships that they form later in life (Donohue, 2015). There have been many studies that confirm that attachment starts later on in life and that without attachment there can be some serious social consequences later on in life. Attachment occurs in every child and for me it has definitely shaped who I am today.
John Bowlby developed his Attachment Theory to examine and explore the contextual relationships between a child and their caregiver and their behavioral repercussions. He describes it is “a way of conceptualizing the propensity of human beings to make strong affectional bonds to particular others and of explaining the many forms of emotional distress and personality disturbance, including anxiety, anger, depression, and emotional detachment, to which unwilling separation and loss give rise” (Bowlby, 1979, p. 127). An infant’s attachment to their primary caregiver establishes a sense of security, through protection, so the infant is able to explore the world with confidence and without threat and risk. During a child’s
The theory of attachment was first proposed by a British psychoanalyst John Bowlby (1907-1990) who described it as a ‘lasting psychological connectedness between human beings’ (1988). According to psychologist Mary Anisworth attachment “may be defined as an affectional tie that one person or animal forms between himself and another specific one-a tie that binds them together in space and endures over time: Attachment is a bond that develops between an infant and their main caregiver usually the mother. Researchers Bowlby, Anisworth, Main and Solomon suggested that this attachment between infant and caregiver may have influence throughout their lives.