What is Social Emotional Development?
A child’s ability to comprehend, feel, express, and control their emotions as well as form healthy relationships with others is known as social emotional development, and it is essential to their general well-being and future success.
How many Attachment theories are there and what are they?
There are 4 attachment theories
- Pre-Attachment -The first stage of an infant’s attachment development, known as the pre-attachment phase, lasts from birth to roughly six weeks. Babies use noises, smiles, and crying to communicate with their caregivers throughout this stage.
- Attachment in making-According to attachment theory, the term “attachment-in-the-making” describes the period of time between six weeks and eight months when newborns start to choose their primary caregiver, seek out closeness, and show some distress when separated, but are still at ease among strangers.
- Clear cut-It becomes clear that they are attached to a familiar caregiver.
When an adult they depend on leaves them, babies exhibit “separation anxiety” and become distressed.
This anxiety rises between six and fifteen months, and its appearance is dependent upon the infant’s temperament, environment, and adult conduct. - Formation of reciprocal relationship- Separation demonstrations have decreased as a result of the toddler’s ability to comprehend some of the elements that affect the parent’s arrival and departure and estimate their return.
- Through requests and persuasions, a child might work with the caregiver to change their objectives.
- As the child gets older, their reliance on the caregiver decreases.
Attachment Behavior V Attachment Bond
Attachment behavior is behavior on the part of the infant that promotes proximity to the attachment figure, such as smiling and vocalization (Carlson & Sroufe; Cassidy)
Attachment bond, however, is described by Ainsworth and Bowlby not as a dyadic and reciprocal relationship existing between the infant and his caregiver but rather as the infant’s interpretation of his relationship with his mother (Cassidy)
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