Debates in Social Work About Attachment Theory Include

question 18

Multiple Choice

Debates in social work about attachment theory include:

• A) views of attachment theory are used to reduce costs
• B) concerns that attachment theory is connected to mother-blaming
• C) focus on groups who have suffered from social problems rather than middle-class
• D) all of the above

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Definitions:

Emotional Ties

Emotional ties are deep connections between individuals based on feelings of love, friendship, or other emotional bonds.

Minimal Group Paradigm

Placing people into arbitrarily defined groups that have no important meaning is sufficient to trigger in-group and out-group processes and produce intergroup discrimination.

Social Identity Theory

A psychological theory suggesting that a person's sense of who they are is based on their group membership(s), which contributes to their self-esteem and behavior towards others.

Ultimate Attribution Error

A bias in which negative behaviors of out-group members are attributed to their character, while similar behaviors by in-group members are attributed to situational factors.