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| Attachment & the Nature of Attachment Disorder |
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Attachment:
Our early connection to others |
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| The importance of attachment Children have a natural tendency to bond with their mother or other primary caretaker. It is this bond that leads to trust and allows them to engage in a future built on honest and effective interactions.
Infants strive to have their needs understood and met, to be touched and loved, and to successfully rely on the adults whose care they depend on. This attachment to a primary caregiver(s) is their earliest step in developing a two-way (reciprocal) exchange of love and trust.
This ability to attach to another human being at a very young age affects a child's ability to form close relationships through all the years of her life. It is the fundamental building block essential to all other stages of development— cognitive (awareness and judgement), neurological (physical), social, and emotional.
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