Attachment security: influences on social and emotional competence, executive functioning and readiness for school

摘要: A primary task for parents and infants in the early years is development of attachment relationships. Parents are first teachers a child very broadest sense. The learns, through experiences family, about safety world; relationships; how to manage themselves with others, both safe challenging interactions; risks associated play exploration. School readiness involves considerably more than an interest letters numbers. It includes social emotional competence, curiosity flexibility capacity engage use support other children adults learning process. All this supported by security care giving This chapter will review evidence that quality relationships shapes neuro-biological which turn influences psychological functioning throughout life; self-regulation, executive functioning, information processing, cognitive language lay foundation engagement success at school; style help seeking behaviours, medical as well educational settings. indicates those most risk adverse developmental outcomes who experience accumulation factors, including insecurity their also consider from longitudinal studies at-risk groups, mental illness exposed maltreatment. Here intention assess impact on across life span. concludes outlining importance intervention caregivers young children, workers child-care preschool