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Describe the development of attachment theory and discuss its strengths and limitations.
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Describe the development of attachment theory and discuss 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. Bowlby's main idea was that of the main caregiver providing a safe and secure base in which the child can return to over again, without coming to any harm. This serves the evolutionary function of such behaviour which then leads to emotionally secure bonds being...
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