Attachment as Precursor for Exploration
From attachment research, we have the classifications of secure, avoidant,
and ambivalent/resistant organized attachment in children and corresponding
classifications of secure, dismissing, and preoccupied attachment in adults.
Avoidant status is associated with rejection (dismissing behavior) by the
caregiver. Ambivalent/resistant status is associated with insensitive and
unpredictable (preoccupied) responses by the caregiver. The status reflects
the defensive strategy that the infant has developed for maintaining
proximity and/or self-organization in response to the restrictions that the
parent places on proximity-seeking behavior or autonomous exploration.
A breakdown in the strategy results in disorganized status. This can occur
due to trauma especially if the parent is frightening or frightened, or if
the parent withdraws from the infant as though the infant were the source of
the alarm, or the parent appears to be......
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