Introduction to Attachment

Introduction to Attachment

1. Attachment begins with the interactions between infants and their caregivers. It is the responsiveness of the to the infant's signals that has profound effects.

2. Reciprocity- A description of how two people interact. Mother-infant interaction is reciprocal in that both infant and mother respond to each other's signals and each elicits a response from the other.

3. Interactional Synchrony- Mother and infant reflect both the actions and emotions of the other and do this in a co-ordinated (synchronised) way.