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Critically discuss the implications of attachment theory for different forms of child care.
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Critically discuss the implications of attachment theory for different forms of child care. Our need for acceptance, appreciation and intimacy is our most basic characteristic. The importance of attachment in early childhood cannot be underestimated; it forms the basis for psychological development. Research has provided information about factors which form the foundations of secure and insecure attachments that have implications for different forms of child care, which will be discussed. I will start with the founder of the attachment theory, John Bowlby who devised his theories based on his interest in connections between poor social relationships, and factors relating to mental health, with experiences of distressed separations in early life. I shall begin by looking at his maternal deprivation theory and then discuss how this developed. I will then move on to Mary Ainsworth (1985) who updated and extended upon Bowlby's theories by focusing on the nature and quality of the...
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