Identity and attachment

Identity and attachment

1. Bowlby

   • Theory of attachemnt
     • Phase 1 birth - 3 months
       • Pays attention to people - anyone - looks, reaches, babbles
     • Phase 2 3-6 months
       • Begins to more responsive to mother figure
     • Phase 3, 6 months - 2 years
       • Follows mother, greets on returnm base for exploring, less firendly to others
     • Phase 4, 2 years onwards
       • Develops insight into mothers feelings, motives and plans
   • Focuses on the mother attachement
   • Primary care giver
   • Secure base from which to explore
   • Constructing models in our minds about how the world works
     • crucial to being able to act successfully with the world

2. Can become attached to more than one figure

3. Not all babies developed attachments

4. Secure attachements lead to less crying and content to explore in presence

   • senstivivity to babies signals developed more mutually satsifying relationships

5. Insecurly attache infants cried more and explored little

6. attachment depends on the skill and situation of the primary carer

7. forming Attachments is the first step on learning about themselves

8. Different attachments used in different ways

9. Develops the ability to be flexible and adaptable

10. From attachements understanding of

    • own self
    • famiily member
    • world around them
    • ther rplace with the world

11. Scripts and stories

    • Assocation
    • sketch out generalised squences of actions
    • develop gradually
    • Pieces together experiences
    • Stable representations - core elements stay the same but another level on analysis changes with age and experinces
    • can be fragmented/distorted

12. Attachment to identity development

    • Attachment
      • Secure base
        • Exploration
          • Internal working model building
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13. Restricted opportunties

    • Family break ups
    • inadequate parenting
    • identity may seem weakly defined and inauthentic