Attachment Case Study

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Forming attachments in life is something that is beneficial for us all. However, there are many in the world that have grown up without being able to form attachments with others properly. Children in foster homes have harder times forming attachments. This is partly because they are in and out of foster care homes, or they may get close to another child in the home and that child leaves. No matter the reason, they do not have the best attachment history. According to the DSM-IV, reactive attachment disorder is defined as result of social neglect or other situations that limit a young child’s opportunity to form selective attachments. (DSM IV). Attachment is formed in the beginning stages of life to a child. When the child does not have a …show more content…

The purpose of their study was to examine the attachment patterns within children who live in some sort of alternative care. They studied the attachment in alternative care because children form attachments with more than just their mother. They go through life forming attachments and disturbances with the caregiver can alternate the attachment pattern. in their study the sought to accomplish a few things such as the attachment style in a foster care setting compared to an institutional setting. They also based their study on the sensitivity of the caregiver and age of placement with caregiver. The results of their study show that in fact children living in foster care and institutional settings develop less secure attachments. Children in institutions develop less secure and more disorganized attachments than those raised in biological families and children living with foster families. ( Quiroga, Giachritsis, 2015). , another study in the article “found a significant correlation between age and security of attachment in a sample of Foster Care children aged 9–39 months, with younger children having higher security scores” (Ponciano 2010). Their results do not compare with my hypothesis. It shows that younger children score higher, because attachment is at its peak during the age group of infant to toddler. This means that they have a better chance of forming a relationship with their caregiver than an older child

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