When parents consistently respond to hunger or discomfort in babies, suggested Bowlby and Ainsworth, kids learn that they matter. If parents don’t, they can create a sense of insecurity in their ...

Anxiously Attached. In the 1950s, the psychologist John Bowlby coined the term attachment to refer to the bond formed between an infant and its caregiver. He argued that this formative connection ...

This point was not lost on British psychologist John Bowlby (1907–1990), who changed the face of child care nearly single-handedly (with the aid of colleagues, James and Joyce Robertson).

Understanding a client's attachment style—rooted in the pioneering work of John Bowlby (1969) on attachment theory and further elaborated by Mary Ainsworth through her development of the ...

The different types of attachment patterns in John Bowlby's 'Attachment theory', based on how children respond when they are separated and later reunited with their caregivers, are: 1.

It was first proposed by the 20th-century British psychiatrist John Bowlby, who considered that children needed to develop a secure attachment with their main caregiver via sufficiently consistent ...