Bowlby's Monotropic Attachment Theory
Attachment to 'safe space' (parent)
Secure Base = able to explore
Attachment: Innate Caregiving: Innate Critical Period &
& Adaptive & Adaptive Sensitive Period
Behaviours during 1st 30 months of life
Adaptive for the sake critical period that = critical for
of survival get responses from psychological
caregiver development.
Attachment is innate
(natural) Innate drive to Damage likely
respond without attachments
Attachment is Monotropic
• Evolutionary based attachment
• One primary caregiver
• Due to an innate capacity infants have
Continuity
Internal Working Model
Attachments provide IWM for Hypothesis
how relationships work, (like a Suggests clear link
template for future between early attachment
relationships/parenthood). & later emotional
Tells you what to expect & how behaviours. Attachment
to act. style carries into
adulthood.
Attachment to 'safe space' (parent)
Secure Base = able to explore
Attachment: Innate Caregiving: Innate Critical Period &
& Adaptive & Adaptive Sensitive Period
Behaviours during 1st 30 months of life
Adaptive for the sake critical period that = critical for
of survival get responses from psychological
caregiver development.
Attachment is innate
(natural) Innate drive to Damage likely
respond without attachments
Attachment is Monotropic
• Evolutionary based attachment
• One primary caregiver
• Due to an innate capacity infants have
Continuity
Internal Working Model
Attachments provide IWM for Hypothesis
how relationships work, (like a Suggests clear link
template for future between early attachment
relationships/parenthood). & later emotional
Tells you what to expect & how behaviours. Attachment
to act. style carries into
adulthood.
