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Bowlby placed great emphasis on the role of mothers in childcare in 1953. How relevant are his ideas now in the light of subsequent changes to the family
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Bowlby placed great emphasis on the role of mothers in childcare in 1953. How relevant are his ideas now in the light of subsequent changes to the family? In this essay I will begin by outlining who Bowlby was and his ideas around childcare in 1953, and then I shall explore the changes to the family that have occurred since and discuss how relevant Bowlbys ideas are in relation to these changes. John Mostyn Bowlby studied psychology and pre-clinical sciences at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and then worked with maladjusted and delinquent children, he then enrolled at University College Hospital in London where he qualified in medicine and enrolled into the institute for psychoanalysis. Then he trained in adult psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London and qualified as a psychoanalyst and later became president of Trinity College. Bowlby believed it was "essential for mental health that an infant and...
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