English to Russian Medical Psychology

Attachment theory encompasses an organizational perspective on devel¬opment wherein adaptation in each developmental period builds upon and transforms preceding functioning (Sroufe, 1996). From this view, early experience has special significance because it provides the founda¬tion for the child’s subsequent transactions with the environment. The child interprets and creates new experiences based on experiences of emotional closeness in the earliest relationships (Bowlby, 1988). Early ex¬periences derive special significance from their nature: They are pre-verbal, not accessible to verbal recall, and less readily modified by subsequent experience (Sroufe, Carlson, Levy, & Egeland, 1999). These early variations in quality of emotional connectedness, confidence regarding the availability of others, and feelings of self-worth may be the legacy of infancy (Sroufe, Levy, & Carlson, 1998).