118. Attachment Theory & What Parents Can do to Support Healthy Attachment with Dr. Alex Shrake

Motherhood Meets Medicine

What can we as parents do to support healthy attachment in our children? We want our children to have secure attachment in their relationships throughout their lives and know that the early years are vital to ensuring this. However, it often feels overwhelming when we are striving to get it perfect 100% of the time. But research says children still develop healthy secure attachment when we don’t get it “right” all the time.

Dr. Alex Shrake is joining me to provide insight into how we can help our children develop secure attachment. Dr. Alex Shrake is a California based Licensed Professional Clinical counselor and mom of town who specializes in supporting parents through pregnancy, postpartum and parenting during the early years.

She works with families form an attachment frame and has specialized training in supporting those who have experienced trauma. Dr. Alex Shrake also has a background in teaching and supervision counselors-in-training and consulting with preschools regarding fostering positive socioemotional development in the classroom.

In today’s episode, we talk about attachment theory, the different types of attachment styles, how to support healthy attachment, and how it may look in real-life situations.

In this episode we discuss:

• What attachment theory is
• What the 4 attachment styles may look like
• The age range children predominantly develop their attachment style
• How we can start to know and understand our child’s attachment style
• How the insecure attachment styles of anxious, avoidant, or disorganized attachment might show up in adulthood
• What a parent can do to support a healthy attachment
• How we can support a child who is going into daycare or school

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