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Positive relationships Attachment, part 3: Insecure lives
Nursery World,
5 December 2007
Practitioners should be alert to children in their care who may lack the sense of secure attachment they need for emotional development, and offer their families whatever support they can, says Anne O'Connor.
- Q: What do we mean by insecure attachment? If we think of attachment as a continuum or scale with 'insecure' at one end and 'secure' at the other, then we all fall somewhere on that continuum. Our early experiences and the way we were parented will have influenced the levels of our confidence, self-esteem and resilience to stress. As a 'securely attached' child is able to...
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