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How Attachment Theory Works

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The Effects of Attachment Theory on Infant Safety

The upshot of attachment theory is this, everybody, that you're a primary caregiver. And if you make yourself available to an infant's needs and give them skin on skin contact, then the infant learns that they can depend on that. If you don't do that exactly, then it has all sorts of other effects that make the kid not secure from that time on. Armato: I didn't see anything like where that skin on Skin contact is an important part of attachment.

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