(Reference) At birth vision is an infant's least developed sense, their visual acuity is approximately 20/600, this results in everything the child sees being blurry regardless of the distance an object or person is away from the newborn. ... According to Dr Sears at birth the nerve cells in an infant's brain are unsystematic and ill connected. ...
Indeed he proposed that personality is developed through an attachment process whereby babies are innately programmed to form attachments to their mothers as key attachment figures from birth. ... Research on the importance of mothers to attachment security in the Metera Babies Centre in Athens, (Vorria et al. 2003) found that 66% of infants who had been reared in residential care from birth showed disorganized patterns of attachment. ...
It is essential for social work and human services practitioners to have a clear understanding of human development and behaviour, for each individual is a product of a number of different influential factors. Harms' (2010) acknowledges the notion that an individual can occupy more than one dimensio...
