"Still Face" Experiment: How "Attunement" Creates Attachment

Kathy Brous 1/30/146:33 PM

Thank you, Shelley Calissendorff for your "Smile at Your Baby" photo on this on Facebook!

If you haven't seen this video yet, this is the Gold Standard to illustrate what Allan Schore calls "attunement."

It shows how attunement creates attachment for a baby.

Using the "Still Face" Experiment, in which a mother denies her baby attention for a short time, Dr. Ed Tronick shows how prolonged lack of attention can move an infant from good socialization, to periods of bad but repairable socialization. In "ugly" situations the child does not receive any chance to return to the good, and may be traumatized.

The video is at: http://goo.gl/5sHk7e

and also www.youtube.com/watch?v=apzXGEbZht0&feature=youtu.be

Ed Tronick (http://www.umb.edu/Why_UMass/Ed_Tronick) is director of UMass Boston's Infant-Parent Mental Health Program and Distinguished Prof of Psychology.

For Dr. Tronick's latest work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmE3NfB_HhE

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Thank you Kathy! Much appreciated! :D

1/31/1412:39 PM

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