Adoption, Fostering, Orphan Care and Displacement - Stolen Generations, Adoption, Child Abandonment, Thomas John Barnardo (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 116. Chapters: Stolen Generations, Adoption, Child abandonment, Thomas John Barnardo, Reactive attachment disorder, Attachment theory, Attachment therapy, Foster care, Maternal deprivation, LGBT adoption, Street children, Attachment-based therapy, Attachment in children, International adoption, John Bowlby, Baby hatch, Open adoption, Closed adoption, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Language of adoption, List of international adoption scandals, Foundling hospital, Orphan, List of orphans and foundlings, Cultural variations in adoption, Waif, Raising Hell, Barnardo's, New York Foundling, Orphan Train, Runaway, Domestic adoption, Child laundering, Foster care adoption, John Christopher Drumgoole, Orphan's Christmas, Orphan school, Beechholme, Social orphan, Effects of adoption on the birth-mother. Excerpt: Attachment theory describes the dynamics of long-term relationships between humans. Its most important tenet is that an infant needs to develop a relationship with at least one primary caregiver for social and emotional development to occur normally. Attachment theory is an interdisciplinary study encompassing the fields of psychological, evolutionary, and ethological theory. Immediately after WWII, homeless and orphaned children presented many difficulties, and psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby was asked by the UN to write a pamphlet on the matter. Later he went on to formulate attachment theory. Infants become attached to adults who are sensitive and responsive in social interactions with them, and who remain as consistent caregivers for some months during the period from about six months to two years of age. When an infant begins to crawl and walk they begin to use attachment figures (familiar people) as a secure base to explore from and return to. Parental responses lead to the development of patterns of attachment; these, in tur...