Social Development

Attachment The emotional ties that

form between people. Attachment is essential

for survival By four months, they

prefer their mother. Failure to Thrive http://

www.focusas.com/Attachment.html

Stranger Anxiety By 8 months infants

develop a fear of strangers.

They become more distressed when strangers try to touch them.

Separation Anxiety Also at about the same

age, infants become distressed if they fear that their parent is leaving them

Why?

Contact Comfort Instinctual need to touch

or be touched by something soft.

Examples:

Imprinting Process by which some

animals form immediate attachments during a critical period.

While this takes place in animals like geese…Humans do not have a critical period.

What does this mean? How do we know this?

What type of parent will you be? Authoritative

Combine warmth with positive strictness Children are more independent and achievement

oriented.

Authoritarian Believe in obedience for its own sake Expect children to follow without question Children become resistant and less friendly as well

as less spontaneous

What type of parent will you be? Permissive

High in warmth but rarely discipline their children

Expectations of maturation are low.

Helicopter Parents Parents are more

involved today than at any other time

Even talking to college professors

Children are their investment

Child Abuse and NeglectCauses

Stress- Poverty and Unemployment History in family Acceptance of violence as a coping

mechanism Lack of attachment to the children Substance abuse Rigid attitudes about child rearing

Self-esteem Unconditional Positive Regard

Parents love and accept their children for who they are-no matter how they behave

How do they grow up?

Conditional Positive Regard Parents show their love only when the children

behave in certain acceptable ways How do they grow up?