ATTACHMENT

ATTACHMENT

1. Introduction to Attachment

   • Attachment: An emotional two-way bond built between two people. Reciprocity: When each person responds to the other and elicits a response from them. Interactional Synchrony: When the actions between to subjects mirror one another at the same time.
   • Role of the father: Grossman (2002), longitudinal study, mother-child contributed to child's attachments in adolescence, father is not as importnat, however father's play role towards chiild determined childs attachemnt to adolescence.