Deck 5: Psychodynamic Attachment Practice

Question 1

Attachment ideas:

A) are the process of appreciating and responding to emotions and attitudes that lie underneath surface behavior
B) focus on the element of caregiving within social work, particularly 'safe havens'
C) developed from Freud's early work
D) none of the above

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Attachment theory came out of work with:

A) applications of postmodernism
B) institutionalized individuals particularly in criminal justice settings
C) children and young people
D) all of the above

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Attachment theory has long incorporated neuroscience findings:

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Debates in social work about attachment theory include:

A) views of attachment theory are used to reduce costs
B) concerns that attachment theory is connected to mother-blaming
C) focus on groups who have suffered from social problems rather than middle-class
D) all of the above

Question 5

Inherited characteristics and temperament have a major influence on attachment:

Question 6

Views of maternal deprivation:

A) plays a very small role in attachment theory
B) is seen as the primary cause of adult inappropriate behavior
C) was developed in public social service agencies
D) has changed over time as a more nuanced understanding of attachment developed

Question 7

One consequence of infant determinism:

A) may be an excessive focus on working with children and caregiving over immediate needs of adults
B) is the growing evidence to support the long-term impact of 'attachment parenting'
C) was the understanding the genetic factors and peer relationships in later childhood have little influence
D) none of the above

Question 8

Insecure children are:

A) often quite reliant as a result of caregiving that is present but changeable and variable, so children become anxious
B) a very small percentage of all children
C) unlikely to change as they become adults
D) none of the above

Question 9

Attachment ideas can inform many situations social workers deal with such as:

A) adults moving home
B) changing jobs or moving into a care home
C) young people leaving foster care
D) all of the above

Question 10

Attachment theory:

A) provides interesting ideas that can help practitioners understand how behavior develops from childhood into adulthood
B) provides a proven tool for predicting adult behavior
C) takes into account social pressures and effects of poverty
D) all of the above

Question 11

Attachment theory:

A) assumes, like psychoanalysis, a biological basis for behavior and social relations
B) suggests that when a caregiving figure is absent, young children may be distressed but not adults
C) is focused on parent(s)
D) none of the above

Question 12

Attunement is:

A) related to the degree of relationship between child and caregiver
B) a clinical measure applied in group work
C) response to personality disorders in children
D) practitioner's empathy with and responsiveness to client's emotions

Question 13

Secure base priming might involve:

A) photographs
B) music
C) holiday souvenirs
D) all of the above

Question 14

Mentalization refers to:

A) daydreaming behavior that develops in young children
B) mental barriers that all persons develop to shield them
C) ability of people to understand that others have expectations, experiences and etec. that are different from their own
D) none of the above

Question 15

Infant determinism:

A) refers to the policy-based decisions by agencies about child welfare
B) assumes that early childhood experience would continue to affect the whole life
C) is a practice stance giving primacy to parental decisions about their infants
D) is a theory based on the choices of playmates by young children

Question 16

'Disorganized' or 'insecure' attachment is more a description of ways of adapting to uncertainty and change for some people's personal development:

Question 17

The 'strange situation procedure':

A) studies certain periods during a child's upbringing
B) uses a brief period of attachment stress rather than broader life experience and relationships
C) studies a series of similar periods during a child's upbringing
D) all of the above

Question 18

One consequence of infant determinism:

A) is to reduce the rate of adoptions in less developed countries
B) is to give a priority to infant and children's preferences in food and play
C) may be an excessive focus in working with child and caregiving in their families a s apriority in social and health services
D) none of the above

Question 19

The power of attachment ideas in work with children has contributed to a delayed and weak development of the use of attachment in working with adults:

Question 20

Personal characteristics and temperament do not have a major effect on attachment and caregiving.