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Margaret Mahler
-Lifelong relationships/skills are strongly rooted in early attachments with parents (specifically mothers)
-Three Stages, last stage has four substages. |
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Age - Newborn to 1 month
-INFANT FOCUSED ON SELF
-incapable of investing in others/unresponsive to external stimuli |
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Age - 1 to 5 months
-Infant BREAKS OUT OF AUTISTIC SHELL
-Infant feels unity with mother/begins to understand the MOTHER AS A SEPARATE BEING |
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| SEPARATION - INDIVIDUATION STAGE |
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Age Span - 6 to 24 months
a. Differentiation
b. Practicing
c. Rapprochement
d. Object Constancy |
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Age 6 to 9 months
-Attention shifts from INWARD FOCUS to OUTWARD FOCUS
-Infant begins to SEPARATE FROM CAREGIVER BY CRAWLING |
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Age - 9 to 14 months
-Infant CRAWLS and WALKS FREELY, explores actively and BECOMES DISTANT FROM MOTHER |
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Age - 14 to 24 months
- Infant DESIRES to BE INDEPENDENT
- Infant MOVES AWAY FROM MOTHER BUT RETURNS REGULARLY to make sure his/her mother is still there |
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Age - After 24 moths
-Infant has the CAPACITY TO RECALL MOTHER DESPITE ABSENCE
-Child sees mother as a SEPARATE INDIVIDUAL from themselves. |
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| Name all Attachment/Object Relations Stages in Order with Ages |
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1. Normal Autism/Autistic: Birth to 1 Month
2. Normal Symbolic: 1 - 5 Months
3. SEPARATION - Individuation: Age Span - 6 to 24 months
a. Differentiation: 6 to 9 months
b. Practicing: 9 to 14 months
c. Rapprochement: 14 to 24 months
d. Object Constancy: 24+ months |
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