Journal of Child and Adolescent Behavior
Open Access

Short Communication

Seeing the Unseen- Early Attachment Trauma and The Impact on Child′ Development

Doris D’Hooghe^*

Trauma Centre, Kerkplein 1, 9981 Sint Margriete East Flanders, Belgium

*Corresponding Author:

Doris D’Hooghe
Trauma Centre, Kerkplein 1
9981 Sint Margriete East Flanders, Belgium
Tel: 0032470404404
E-mail: doris.dhooghe@skynet.be

Received Date: December 26, 2016; Accepted Date: January 02, 2017; Published Date: January 10, 2017

Citation: D’Hooghe D (2017) “Seeing the Unseen”: Early Attachment Trauma and The Impact on Child’s Development. J Child Adolesc Behav 5:326. doi:10.4172/2375-4494.1000326

Copyright: © 2017 D’Hooghe D. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

It is important to broaden our vision on attachment trauma, by pointing out the importance of the quality of parenting as an indicator to develop a secure attachment relationship. This quality mainly depends on the caregivers’ ability to mentalize, regulate, contain, play, and so on. The absence of these features causes traumatic stress in the child and impacts his psychological and neurological development and the possibility to attach. Thus, it is important that we are aware of the relationship between early attachment trauma (EAT) and affect dysregulation and dissociation. The seriousness depends on the early age of the child, the stress level of adverse experiences and the caregiver as the source of trauma.

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