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Nothing in life is more precious than the intimate relationships we have with loved ones. Healthy love relationships delight us, give us confidence to take on challenges and support us in difficult times. with lovewise by joyful. And more than temporary parties need for. These close emotional bonds, what we call love, were the focus of Mary Ainworth's work. Her work can be described as the scientific study of love and how it tells us. Her primary focus was on the infants developing love for its primary caregiver. She saw this as the early form of a lifelong emotional bomb. And one that would come to influence other loving relationships as well. fundamarities of a pet. Um, Maintaining, uh, a degree, a possibility to, at that time, figures, I think, you just want them, on the whole way to, for them, actually, the whole age. Um, I think... that... that your face is phenomenal, is just something that is, um... Hopful to the concept of attachment relationships. of college. Ainsworth was 78 years old when that amateur video was made at a major psychological conference. She was still vitally involved in the study of attachment relationships that had occupied her for 40 years. Hello? I'm Bob Marley. I'm the director of the Mary D. Ainsworth Child Care Attachment Clinic at the University of Virginia Medical Center. I was fortunate to work with Mary Ainsworth when I was an undergraduate, while she was doing some of her most important research. I became part of a loving academic family that grew up around her over the years. Things were a study of the origins and nature of attachments as they developed from interactions between infants and their primary caregivers, usually mothers. Her extensive observations of these interactions and natural situations, and the experimental procedure she created to study these interactions in the laboratory, have become basic to the study of human development. From these studies, Ainsworth found behaviors and patterns in human love relationships that are helping us to understand what it is about these relationships that brighten most lives and haunt others. This video will introduce you to the influences on Ageworth that brought her to this work. The methodology is developed, the patterns she found, and the implications of this work that have spurred further studies and therapeutic interventions that are her legacy to us all. Ainsworth was born Mary D. Salton in 1913 in Glendale, Ohio. One of his three daughters. And was worth herself talked about the fact that her mother, Mrs. Salter, tended more to the physical needs of her children than to their emotional needs. It was her father, who was more attuned to her need for affection. Unfortunately, he was away from home much of the time because of his career in sales. As with all of us, Ainsworth's personal history strongly influenced her professional work. The search to understand and to have secure attachments was a lifetime quest for her. Because of her father's work, the family immigrated to Canada early in Mary's life, and she spent her childhood and youth there. A very energetic student, Mary Salter, earned her bachelor's, master's, and PhD degrees in psychology from the University of Toronto in minimal time. After several years of professional success teaching at the university level and service in the Canadian Women's Army Corps during the Second World War, Mary Salter, at age 38, found romantic love and married returning veteran Len Ainsworth. He soon decided to complete his PhD in London. While in London, Mary Ainsworth began a professional partnership, accepted course for the remainder of her life's work. Though a chance encounter, she took a research job at the Tavistock Clinic, working with John Boley, a child psychiatrist who was then questioning some of the basic premises of the psychoanalytic theory in which he had been trained. The jury did not seem to explain the problems he saw in the children he was working with, who had been separated from their parents by war or illness.set nature disrupted And, um, yeah, of course, everyone will be out, so, that child is, it's a mother because she thinks it. And, um, but I, I was not convinced. And, um... Again, this sort of background there, and children, and terrible worlds, are, just still, still, makes sense. Of course funny to say you don't like this the It's something to produce a different one. And by very lucky charge. Um, psychologist, not whom I never do very well, never quite. We have to meet at a committee meeting, and he said to me, I will, Singapore, or some, or... Well, the answer was I never heard it. Conrad Lorenz was a pioneer in the study of ecology, the science of animal behavior based on Darwin's theory of evolution. Ethologists found that young animals sought proximity to a care figure, not on the basis of food, but for security and comfort. Harry Harlow's experiments showed that infant Reese's monkeys spend much more time with their soft, hairy claw surrogate mother and with the hard one that provided nourishment. Attachment, as ethologists and his bull being Ainsworth came to see it, originates from the need to keep offspring alive and protected. Human infants, like other mammals, are unable to survive without the care of a protective adult. They're biologically programmed to seek physical proximity, contact with a caregiver, and their parents are programmed to divide it. Bolby realized that that care builds emotional ties, cause attachments, between human children and parents. But he could not yet describe the development of attachments. The interactions that affected their quality. Nor the different patterns involved. Ainsworth would provide these descriptions to her observational studies of infants and mothers in natural situations, and later in experimental ones. Along with an interest in child parent ties, while in London, Ainsworth learned about the power of controlled observation in real life situations, from the word of James Robertson. In the 1950s, parents were allowed to see their hospitalized children only during brief visiting hours. James Robertson filmed the hour by our reactions of a two year old in a hospital separated from her parents. This film helped Ainsworth learn about the power of film documentation, which could be shared with other people. After days of distress in the hospital, this child, who had a minor operation, seemed strangely detached from the overtures of her parents. He's worth would find a similar reaction in some of the babies in her strange situation study after a brief separation. In 1954, Ainsworth gave up her London job with John Boley to once more accompany her husband. This time, to Uganda in East Africa, where he had taken a university teaching position. With no job awaiting her, he always resourceful and energetic Ainsworth decided to do a research project. She had been told that Ganda babies were physically separated from their mothers for weakening, and she was interested in the emotional consequences of that practice. She soon discovered, however, that this abrupt meeting was not customary. However, her observations of the interactions that did occur between the baby and mother provided insights into the nature and development of infant mother attachments. With Katie Kabuka, acknowledged by Ainsworth as interpreter, research assistant, and friend, Ainsworth observed the interactions of 28 infants and their mothers over a nine month period as they won about their normal days. In these sessions, Ainsworth developed techniques for making systematic observations, and honed her own skills in taking meticulous notes of real life interactions. He's worth strongly felt in observing and describing behavior in natural situations was crucial to the science of psychology. It was only after months of observing these mothers and babies that she began to identify the complex patterns into which their behaviors were organized. Perhaps the three most important things to emerge from the Uganda study were first that she was able to identify a number of important attachment behaviors. Second, she discovered that babies go through a number of phases in developing their attachments during the first year of life. And third, she began to understand how some patterns of parenting lead to secure attachments, while others need to insecure or anxious attachments. In 1955, the Ainsworths came to Baltimore, Maryland, where Len had procured a job. Again, it was up to Mary Ainsworth to seek employment on the spot. She combined a private practice in psychological assessment with an instructor's position at Johns Hopkins University. The first years in Baltimore were personally distressing for his work. Her marriage failed, and she was also disappointed professionally with the low prestige salary of the works she had cobbled together. Women were not yet seen as professional eagles in most universities. But despite her period of unhappiness, Ainsworth completed the enormous job of organizing her Uganda notes into her first book. She also eventually got her proper academic appointment and salary, and started her now famous Baltimore Study. In this, her best known work, she and her students observed 26 middle class babies in their mothers in their homes. Four hour visits were made at three week intervals from age three weeks to 54 weeks. During each visit, we took these extensive notes. In the hall, the observer concentrated on interactions between the mother and baby, which included different crime and fraternal responses to the tribe. Episodes of close bodily contact. Face to face encounters, separation, and their unique behaviors. And examples of infinite cooperation or disobedience. For instance, report from a visit like this would be something like the follow. Father bends over, this is being Mom sitting nearby, Dad stands, and he fusses, looks at Mom, and, like, possibly cry. He takes the rag, starts on the kitchen. becomes distracted by a toy. Mom and I walk, maybe wanders towards... We just visit in the 1960 Baltimore Study, ultimately, on approximately, on paper, the detailed behaviors of the child and the caregivers they occurred. Marked off in five minutes. So, business card, true meta, some amounts of data. It took several years to organize, code, and analyze. Iganda observation. Each once realized that she was seeing patterns of infinite parent behavior, that made sense, and chose the world was developing attachment theory. With this work, Ainsworth and Bolby began writing each other with increased frequency and excitement, and cemented a professional partnership that was to last the remainder of their lives. From the enormous pool of data that Ainsworth and her students had collected a natural situations, they discovered much about the changes in babies and taffing behaviors across the first year of life, and about the relationships between infant and maternal behavior. For example, contrary to the opinions of most experts since the 1880s, Ainsworth found babies whose mothers had responded to their cries quickly and sensitively when they were in their first six months of life. Fried muscle S has one year old. They were also more compliant or obedient later in the first year. Good job. Cooperating with necessary transitions. They also explore more and develop new cognitive skills sooner than babies whose mothers had been less sensitive to their early needs and signals. Mothers who allowed the baby to set the timing and the pace of feedings. Intended to have less difficult and more secure children by the end of the first year. Ainsworth thought that the sensitivity of the primary caregiver, in terms of picking up cues from the baby and responding to them appropriately. Thank you, is probably the key factor in establishing secure attachments in this. Later studies have found that the infants' temperamency, whether they were edgy or plastic, quiet or active, were not at all as important to predicting individual differences. in the baby's attachments. Sensitive caregivers seem to adjust themselves to the individual characteristics of their babies. Ainsworth concluded, from her Uganda and Baltimore Studies, that this sensitive caregiving led a baby to treat his attached figure as a hater of safety. When things seem unsaving, they're overwhelming. For example, notice how the baby immediately reaches for his mother, because I approach him too closely there. Maybe also uses his mother as a secure base, or base camp, from which to move off and explore and develop new confidence when he is soothed and or feeling confident. This two part function of the caregiver from the child, that she serves as a haven of safety, and as a secure base, is a basic premise of attachment theory. In order to validate for home observations, Ainsworth developed a standardized laboratory procedure that has become an important tool in the study of children between the ages of about 10 months and five or six years. It is called the strange situation, because, in fact, it is just that for the baby or young child. A child and a caregiver enter a room that has lots of toys and some chairs. The caregiver puts the child on the floor to explore. After about three minutes, an adult stranger comes in. Okay. He sits down, chats with the caregiver. That begins to play with the child. Yeah, today, it's a gorgeous day. The caregiver then leaves, and the stranger interacts with the baby. I love you back. It's okay, baby. The caregiver signals her return. with the baby, interaction, while the stranger... a big After a few minutes, the carrier were again leaves. This time, the baby is alone. Why is that gonna happen? Stranger comes back in, and he tries to interact with me. Hey. She's on set. Last 21 minutes... These ones found several intriguing happens. First, maybe some pride at least at home. Those attachments in their mother's forces are also tried more than other babies in the separations in the Latin. They reacted to the loss of their name and safety of the strength setting, by becoming visible, you know, setting. It wasn't a thing, it was a separation, it was the most important... The most telling part of this experience. Navies securely attached to their mothers, like the one you just saw, intended to go to their mothers to be picked up. They were quickly soothed, and then returned to happy exploration. Ainsworth found that 66% of the Baltimore pairs had these secure attachments. She also found two categories of anxious or insecure attachments, which we here illustrate with animations of actual lab footage to protect privacy. Some babies were less obviously upset by the separation, and every union were slow to initiate contact with their characters. In Ainsworth's study, 21% of the pairs were in this avoided category of attachment. Another category of babies, labeled as having insecure, ambivalent, resistant attachments, did less initial exploration, were obviously highly distressed by the separations. And it was very difficult for their mothers to calm them up. The babies have to kill. Because I just can't be now parching in their back. He's made up 13% of the original sample. Several years later, after studying many strange situations, Judith Solomon and Mary May, a former student of Ainsworth's, identified a fourth category called disorganized. These babies were utterly overwhelmed by the experience. Some seem momentarily terrified by their parents' reentry. Others approached and then retreated with a dazed expression, unable to make an organized response to their distress. Further research by Maine and others has shown that most children with this disorganized pattern have been raised in families who have suffered some significant loss, trauma, or maltreatment. For all these babies, whatever category, the strange situation triggered attachment behaviors that developed in their first months of life. The patterns have proven to be quite stable over time and to color future interpersonal relationships. The concepts of the secure base and haven of safety offer the clearest explanation for the behaviors in this strange situation, as we see in this circle of security graphic. Secure babies use their mothers as a base from which to explore. When she's not available in a strange and potentially small situation, there's concern and even distress. But her return brings safety... so they... And then I return to exploration. Babies with avoidant attachments, on the other hand, have often been encouraged to be prematurely independent. Exploration is encouraged, but their caregivers have been somewhat unresponsive to their signals of distress. Physiological measures of stress show that they are indeed upset, but they have already learned not outwardly convey it. Instead, they act as if they want to explore or be distant from their caregiver. Babies with an ambivalent, resistant attachment pattern have been discouraged from competent exploration by a caregiver who is unpredictable. and angry or confused in responding to the baby's signals. These babies exhibit an exaggerated dependency on their caregivers. Both the avoidant and the ambivalent resistant attachment patterns at least give babies a strategy to deal with stress. Infants in these groups, while anxious, are still within the normal range of development. It is the babies with the disorganized patterns, who have proven to be at highest risk, behavioral and emotional problems. Good, but... and relationship difficulties as they get older. Oh, my goodness. All of these patterns develop over time between millions of international. Ladies and their caregivers come to expect certain behaviors in each other. play about the time again. All these internal expectations become something we'll be called an internal working model. A framework of thoughts, feelings, plans, and goals with which we organize our interactions in relationship with others. Ainsworth's work on attachment patterns has sparked many follow up studies, analyzing the interpersonal relationships of people whose infant patterns of attachment were assessed in the strange situation. I mean, can, can we, please, doctor? I mean, can... Are you gonna fix my cold? Developing ways of assessing security and attachment patterns at various ages has become increasingly important, as the long lasting effects of initial infant caregiver attachment are better understood. The scientific study of the nature and quality of attachment relationships later in life continues. I'd like you to choose five word adjectives that describe your relationship with your mother when you were a little boy. Well, uh... I hear you, what's emotional? A major advance in the field came with the adult attachment interview, a standardized assessment created by Mary Mayne and her colleagues to study adults, thoughts, and feelings. That is, their internal working models about attachments. A little nervous in time. One of the words you used to describe your relationship with your mother was emotional. Can you think that incident that would give us straight? What you meant by that? The analysis of the adult attachment interview reflects a person's own attachment history, his or her current state of mind about attachments, and with impressive accuracy, predicts what that person's attachment relationship would be with his or her children even before they are born. helping good happen. Longitude no studies indicate that people who have early secure attachments with their primary caregivers have better relationships with friends during childhood and youth, and tend to have more stable, adult love relationships. And vice versa, people who have had an avoidant or ambulant attachment, or especially disorganized ones, tend to have more trouble in later relationships. It is important here to emphasize that what happens during the first year of life does not determine what happens to the rest of your life. And that is an alcohol concept, the one that most psychologists have protected. A better model is one that used development as a complex set of unfolding happens, opportunities for different outcomes. If one has had unfortunate experiences at 1.5, there's usually an opportunity to return to a more normal or healthy path at some later form of development. In terms of attachment, this means that the baby who's had a disorganized attachment because of maltreatment, for instance, can still return to a normal developmental pathway. This can happen, for example, that American drugs an addiction, or some other loving person, provides long term, emotional security. These changes in pathways can even occur quite late in life, is when an adult who is abused as a child develops an intimate and trusting relationship with a partner, more successful in committing psychotherapy. And, unfortunately, the opposite can occur. People who have had relatively secure attaches can get off track by tragically losing an attachment figure and being so wounded as to not be able to seek a replacement. An early, insecure pattern of attachment does place one at risk from later problems. but does not guarantee that will happen. Life does, all those second chances. Ainsworth left Baltimore and came to the University of Virginia in 1971. She remained here for the rest of her career, becoming Professor Americus in the age of 70. She continued to contribute to the field into her mid '80s and stayed personally and professionally involved with former students in college. She kept abreast of their work as it expanded to study attachments that she would have to figures other than their mothers. From her earliest studies in Uganda, she had recognized that infants develop strong attachments to fathers and to other characters as well. Speaking of paid caregivers, later in her life, she said, I think it's quite possible. That is, there is, a long containing uncorruption. Relationship. This is figured that... Same kind that you expect. Key words here are continuing and uninterrupted. Ainsworth was very wary about childcare practices in which the children might experience either inconsistent care or unpredictable care. Her research has spurred much debate, much further research, and I'm glad to say, but many improvements in the care of infants. Mary Ainsworth died in 1999, nine years after the death of her academic partner, John Goldie. But their joint legacy continues to inspire new research, new interventions, and changes in public policy worldwide. Marysworth's work gave us a way of operationalizing love in terms of behaviors that are observable and that can be reliably measured. Because love, as she showed us, consists not just of feelings, but of behaviors as well. From our earliest days, we signal our need for and our delight in close physical contact. The interactions of love, at any age, offer support to the other person in taxes test. And encouragement for growth, like many spheres of life at all. Love, Ainsworth's secure based construct shows us. Does not just provide safety and comfort. It also encourages competence and self reliance. We are all more confident when we feel secured, and competent people are likely to produce competent loss making. The precious can so close. Yes, sir.