Describe and evaluate Bowlby’s theory of attachment.

... 'Describe and evaluate Bowlby's theory of attachment' 12 Marks John Bowlby was a British psychologist and psychoanalyst. Born in 1907, he was notable for his interest in child psychology and development, and presented two key theories: the maternal deprivation hypothesis, and, perhaps the more significant, attachment theory. His work was important in that it carried major implications for advising about childcare. His findings will have made people think about how they bring up their children, and what the best way is to care for them. For example, for parents who drop their child off at a nursery at eight am, and collect them at six pm, they began to consider whether allowing the child to be around someone else all day could mean that they form attachments with that person, as opposed to the actual parents. The time when the baby is most often awake is during the day, and the

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