Child development: attachment in infancy.

ATTACHMENT IN INFANCY Why psychologist stressed the importance of attachment behaviors in development? Many theorists agree that social contact early in a child's life is important for healthy personality development. This is the most important relationship of the child's development. As it is from best that the child derives its confidence in the world. A break from this relationship is experience is highly distressing in constitutes a considerable trauma [Schaffer 1964]. Through social and emotional exchanges …

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