Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Health and social care. It needs to be at least 1000 words.Download file to see previous pages The Attachment Theory has been described as the "wel

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The Attachment Theory has been described as the "well-researched explanation of infant and toddler behavior and in the field of infant mental health". The theory has related the "developmentally appropriate mental health interventions to sensitively foster emotional relationships between young children and adults". The critics have regarded as proposal of Bowbly as medium for "controversial interventions popularly known as attachment therapy" (Bowbly, 1971). According to John Bowbly, the close relationship between the infant and parent was "founding catalyst to attachment", "children who were separated from their mothers developed significantly slower and inferior to their peers, this condition of division between mother and child was explained as Maternal Deprivation" (Bowbly, 1971).

According to Bowbly the nature of attachment theory is based upon four principle theories, the Theory of Secondary Drive, which stated that children has certain physiological needs and requirements because of which the child is more affiliated towards his/her mother, the reason being that the mother shares the capability to provide mental comfort to the child. The Theory of Primary Object Sucking has stated that, "the infant intrinsically has a tendency towards the human breast which in later stages transform into an attached child-breast or child-mother relationship". The Theory of Primary Object Clinging has explained that "infants inherently have a predisposition to clutch or touch another human being" (Bowbly, 1975). The Theory of Primary Return-to-Womb Craving has explained that "infants seek to return to the womb despising their environmental state" (Bowbly, 1971). The discussed theories have supported...

The author of the paper "Health and Social Care" analyses social development on the basis of two theoretical approaches. He proposed Maternal Care and Mental Health, in which he elaborated the theory of Maternal Deprivation. He proposed the concept of monotropy, which signified the process of firm attachment of the young infant with its mother during the first six months of life. The proposal was accepted appeal the trace of which resonant today, there was an undesirable and unexpected professional concern at the time, the potential and vulnerabilities associated with the concerns were so rampant that World Health Organization was forced to publish rebuttal entitled Deprivation of Maternal Care: A Reassessment of its Effects. The reassessment was proposed has been described as classic in the field of child care, and expressed that children are not habitually so broken and that, in any occasion, other people, together with their fathers, are also very vital to children. According to Sigmund Freud, the importance of the stable and sustained mother-child relationship shall never be underestimated, and a firm mother-child attachment is very vital for the development. Freud explained that first social relationship of an individual is the most important relationship of all. Freud supported his arguments and related those with to the ancient mythology and contemporary ethnography for comparative material. He proposed Oedipus complex, as per which the infant is more affectionate towards his/her mother, and jealous of his/her father.