ERIC Number: ED477476
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 25
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: ISBN-1-875890-637
ISSN: ISSN-1440-5148
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Attachment: Building Secure Relationships in Early Childhood.
Harrison, Linda
AECA Research in Practice Series, 2003., v10 n2 2003
Attachment describes the unique human ability to form lasting relationships with others, and to maintain these relationships over time and distance. Research into attachment has shown that children have the potential to form many attachment relationships, and that each relationship can contribute to the child's growing sense of self. This booklet provides insights in to the ways that caregivers can establish positive relationships with children. The booklet summarizes John Bowlby's theory of attachment relationships, and details the secure and insecure attachment types. It then explores using this attachment theory for understanding children's behavior, describing parent-child separations and peer interactions/conflicts as they might occur within the secure, insecure-avoidant, insecure-ambivalent, and disorganized attachment models. The booklet notes that the challenge to building secure attachment relationships with children is to avoid reinforcing any existing insecurities, and to provide children with experiences of secure interactions. (Contains 14 references and a short list of further sources on attachment.) (HTH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Developmental Stages, Interpersonal Competence, Parent Child Relationship, Peer Relationship, Social Development, Theories, Young Children
Publications Section, Early Childhood Australia, Inc., P.O. Box 105, Watson, ACT 2602, Australia ($14.95). Tel: (02)-6241-6900; Fax: (02)-6241-5547; e-mail: national@aeca.org.au; Web site: http://www.aeca.org.au.
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Parents; Practitioners; Teachers
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Australian Early Childhood Association, Inc., Watson.
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