Attachment Parenting International (API), an educational association that advocates for this responsive parenting practice, provides eight principles to parents and caregivers as a guide. Principles, ...

Disorganized children feel more than just insecure in their most important relationships; they feel unsafe. While the emotional environment of children with anxious and avoidant attachment is ...

Attachment theory began with British psychologist John Bowlby. He was fascinated by how children responded when they realized that their parent was no longer at their side.

According to attachment theory, the bonds children form with their primary caregivers in early life go on to influence their mental health and future relationships.

Attachment theory — is the idea that how a parent consistently responds to their child’s needs forms how a child “attaches” to a caregiver — has a long history, spanning a half a century of scientific ...

Secondly, attachment theory centers the nuclear family, particularly the relationship between parent or primary caregiver and child. In many non-White family structures, there is a more collectivized ...

One mother takes a deep dive into attachment theory to understand why she was blindsided by resentment upon her baby's arrival. Plus, how do you teach children about positive body image and what ...

Attachment theory has entered the realm of pop psychology, seemingly providing answers to many common problems. The theory, which is one of the most empirically validated within developmental ...

Secure attachment begins to form within the first year of life, and is based on a child’s biological need for survival and their psychological need for security.