ay-at-home parents may not give the child much interactive attention during its early development. The caregivers may be neglectful, withholding, very over stimulating or abusive. In these cases, the child does not develop secure attachments and so their reflective function is not a pleasant experience.
The environment is very important to the developing infant and young child. Under Greenspan's DIR model, D stands for functional developmental level, I stands for individual differences in processing (auditory, visual/spatial, sensory modulation, motor planning), and R stands for what the relationships in the family are like. This focuses on integrated human development. Autistic behavior is due to a neurological disorder that affects a child's ability to communicate, understand language, play and relate to others, and therefore to make attachments (Common, 1999). Conduct disorder is a condition in which children and adolescents act out their feelings or impulses toward others in a destructive way. This is because they never learned to make satisfactory attachments to others as young children. Personality disorder is also thought to result sometimes from the child's early upbringing and failure to make stro
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