Attachment: Understanding and supporting parent/carer bonding before birth and in infancy – Frontline Chart (2016)
The lifelong significance of the pre-natal parent-infant bond should not be underestimated. There is a growing body of research into how parents' feelings toward their unborn child sow the seeds of future relationships. The chart supports our Frontline Briefing to build the appropriate application of attachment theory in direct work.
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