Attachment and Parenting Styles

Anxious Ambivalent Attachment

WHAT IS IT? Anxious ambivalent attachment is an attachment style (which is a psychological, evolutionary and ethological theory) that...

Anxious Avoidant Attachment

DEFINITION It is an interpersonal style in which patients experience discomfort in being with others and a tendency to avoid intimate...

Authoritarian Parenting

BACKGROUND In the 20th century, clinical psychologist Diane Baumrind defined authoritarian parenting as a style of parenting that...

Disorganized Attachment

WHAT IS IT? An attachment style represents the way in which we connect with other people, and are generally developed as infants, and...

Neglectful Parenting

DEFINITION Neglectful parenting is a style of parenting where parents do not respond to their children's needs such as affection, food,...

Permissive Parenting

DEFINITION Parents are not strict or demanding; low demand parents => high responsive children; treat children as equals. Parents are...

Secure Attachment

BACKGROUND In a 1978 experiment led by psychologist Mary Ainsworth, children under the age of 2 were exposed to a situation where a child...