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Attachment in Practice – Intro
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- Attachment usually refers
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- to the special nature of a relationship
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- that's very close.
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- A child's first attachment is vitally important.
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- What it does is make the child feel safe and secure.
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- Children who were securely attached as babies
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- have a sense of trust and confidence in themselves
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- because they grow up knowing that,
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- "If something happens that I can't cope with,
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- "there'll always be someone there to help sort it out."
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- Securely-attached children do better at school.
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- They are likely to be good at making friends
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- and are able to get on well with life
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- in many different ways.
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- Their early attachment helps them to form
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- close relationships later in life.
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- Children who develop with insecure attachments
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- are less likely to have these feelings
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- because they've never had a secure base
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- from which to develop trust and confidence.
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- We're going to show
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- how a secure attachment develops in practice
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- using natural documentary sequences
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- of carers and their children,
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- and by talking to Dr. Pios Fanberg,
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- who's been doing research into attachment
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- and working with parents for many years.
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- What is attachment?
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- Attachment is as John Bowlby said;
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- the bond which ties.
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- It's the bond that ties the mother
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- and the baby together.
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- It emerges out of evolution.
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- It developed in orders to protect us from predators.
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- It is central to our very survival.
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- What we're beginning to realize now
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- is that it also central to our well-being.
