Working With Young Children: Attachment (Reaction Paper Sample)

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Working with young children: Attachment
Working with young children entails mainly on dexterities for proper and effective guidance of children while maintaining their safety and health. However, from a definition perspective, attachment is that exclusive, enduring emotional tie involving a child and its parent. It is practical that all children and infants will build up attachments to their parents despite of the type of relationship; be it abusive or harsh. However, this ideology is mostly limited to children brought up by specific primary caregivers or parents. Attachment can either be secure or otherwise insecure. From my personal perspective, a secure attachment is mainly driven by the parenting behavior engaged, while insecure attachment has been facilitated by parenting behaviors such as rejection, insensitivity, and inconsistency in parenting.
Therefore, attachment can either be secure, insecure (avoidant, ambivalent, anxious), disorganized, or unattached. A secure attachment is obligated towards ensuring that children feel and see themselves as worthy, lovable and effective, while being as well mutually available, responsive, and loving to their parents. It is through such experiences that children exhibit the capability to manage anxiety and trauma with some measure of reliance or trust.
For insecure avoidant model of attachment, the parenting individual or caregiver tends to avoid the immediate need and attention of the child. This adjusts the response time for comfort and relief, which makes them feel neglected to some degree. Just as their immediate caregivers, children will equally tend to engage avoidance as a tool to emotionally and physically counter the disappointing interaction with their parents or caregivers. Children with this form of attachment will tend to be self-reliant, emotionally strong, and self contained, while others will exhibit behaviors characterized with hostility, rejection and distancing themselves from their parents.
Children with ambivalent attachment tend to experience extensively conflicting responses by caregivers ranging from anger, to affection, and negligence. During their adulthood, such children will seem to feel ineffective and unloved, and they will strongly seek for love, attention and approval. For the disorganized model, children will tend to experience both extreme and most negative aspects of care provision. This leaves the child without a proper comprehension regarding parent-child interaction, since it is constantly fluctuating.
Therefore, children will build up a secure attachment when the caregiver or parenting individual appropriately attends to their needs and is equally sensitive to their signals.
There is a profound range of children temperaments, and different temperaments should be handled exclusively, with regards to an individual’s mode of temperament. For instance resilient children generate the capacity to mentally represent themselves without distortion; it is very easy to cope with such children. Some children are characterized with anger and happiness as well. Happiness will strengthen attachment of the child to the parent and result to a supportive relationship that will eventually trigger the child’s development competences. Anger and fear tend to develop within the second part of the initial year of a child, where the child exhibits fear of toys and heights. Therefore, temperament will yield the following types of children:
* The easy child- generally cheerful and exhibits quick adaptations to new occurrences
* The difficult child- exhibit slowness in adapting new things, and reacts intensely negative.
* Slow-to-warm-up child- shows characteris...