Attachment and depression

• P- studies of attachment have shown that those infants that develop insecure attachments to their parents are more vulnerable to depression in adulthood
• E- Bowlby's theory of maternal deprivation suggests that continual interference of the attachment between infant and the primary caregiver could result in ling term cognitive, social and emotional difficulties for an infant
• L- attachment theory holds that early attachment relationships influence brain development in terms of cognitive and emotional development. Thus, if children learn maladaptive or unhealthy thought patterns in relation to their primary caregivers this is likely to influence their thought process in adulthood. such research concurs with cognitive theories of depression