DISORGANISED ATTACHMENT

What is 'Disorganised Attachment' and how can an Awareness of it help Social Workers?



What is 'Disorganised Attachment' and how can an Awareness of it help Social Workers?

Introduction

This paper primarily focuses on how disorganised attachment prevails among the children and what are the factors which increase and enhance this situation. Discovered late in the 90s, this type of attachment occurs in children during the strange situation, where they are not comparable to any attachment approaches which includes secure and unsecure attachment. The children exhibit strange behaviour because and show different types of behaviour approaches. They are either frightened or confused. Sometimes they are unable to decide how to behave in such situations.

These types' of situations normally occur in those populations where there is severe physical or mental abuse or there is any type of unresolved trauma which includes bereavement. Sometimes parents are unable to exercise all of their parenting skills because of inconsistent behaviour which leads to generation of insufficient attachment for the child by the parents. This type of attachment leads to psycho emotional development of the children (Shemmings, & Shemmings, 2011). The prevalence of this type of problem in the society hovers around 15%. This problem has been diagnosed in 80% of the children who were subjected to any physical or mental attachment.

Discussion

Disorganized Attachment and its Impact

There are three types of attachments which were described by the John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth which includes secure, insecure-avoidant and insecure ambivalent. Main & Solomon proposed the existence of fourth type of attachment which includes the disorganized insecure attachment. Children who show increased insecurity in bonding depict the characteristics of ambivalent and avoidant insecure. When these children meet their mothers after separation in strange situation they depict confusing and contradictory behaviour. These children are unable to make and any eye-contact with their mothers while at the same time these children don't show and affection towards their mother.

Most of the children who were passing through disorganized attachment show their confusion with the expression of obfuscation. Some of the children show quite and strange postures and after showing rigid and stereo typed movements they eventually cry. Avoidant and ambivalent insecure attachments are determined by the callous behaviour of the children while children who are suffering from disorganized attachment present threatening and frightening behaviours which tend to develop lot of confusion in the child (Holmes, 2004). The abuse by the caregiver is the basic cause of this type of behaviour because the one, who is responsible for providing love and affection to the child, is becoming a source of pain and distress for the child.

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