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Signs of Attachment Disorder in Young Children
Listed below are behaviors and patterns of relating that indicate compromised and disrupted attachment in toddlers and young children:
Showing Affection
- Lack of warm and affectionate interactions
- Indiscriminate affection with unfamiliar adults
Comfort Seeking
- Lack of comfort seeking when frightened, hurt or ill
- Comfort seeking in odd or ambivalent manner
Reliance For Help
- Excessive independence
- Does not seek or use attachment figure for support when needed
Cooperation
- Lack of compliance with caregivers’ requests
- Excessively demanding
- Compulsive compliance
Exploratory Behavior
- Failure to check back with caregiver in unfamiliar surroundings
- Exploration limited by unwillingness to leave caregiver
Controlling Behavior
- Excessively bossy and punitive controlling of caregiver
- Oversolicitous and inappropriate caregiving behavior toward caregiver
Reunion Responses
- Failure to reestablish interaction after separation
- Includes ignoring and avoiding, intense anger, lack of affection
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