The phrase "attachment difficulties" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing emotional or relational challenges, particularly in psychology or child development.
Example: "Many children with attachment difficulties may struggle to form healthy relationships with their peers."
Alternatives: "attachment issues" or "attachment problems".
Parenting can be a stressful experience particularly for people with mental health problems or people who experienced abuse or attachment difficulties in their own childhoods.
"We see children with significant attachment difficulties who have been through 12 or 15, sometimes 20 different foster placements before the local authority decides they need to go to a specialised residential facility.
Referring to the assessment by the appointed clinical psychologist, Judge Wildblood pointed out that, because of numerous delays by the local authority in managing the girl's case, it was "unsurprising but pitiful" that the attachment difficulties that the psychologist had foreseen had now become manifest.
Additionally, early adversity in the form of abuse, neglect, increased exposure to active parental illness, and attachment difficulties have been associated with an increased risk and an earlier age of onset of bipolar disorder, possibly through epigenetic mechanisms (Goodday et al. 2015; Duffy et al. 2016; Doucette et al. 2016; Petronis 2010; Post et al. 2016; Bagot and Meaney 2010).
Scientists have been following some of these insecure individuals since childhood, and are now observing how their attachment difficulties are playing out in their adult relationships.
Some programmes are aimed at foster carers because the attachment behaviours of infants or children with attachment difficulties often do not elicit appropriate caregiver responses.
Consequently, assessment of wearing comfort and attachment difficulty has been advised [ 17].
The participating health professionals were also likely to endorse the outdated view that the cause of social withdrawal in Autism was a parental bonding and child attachment difficulty.
Recognised assessment methods of attachment styles, difficulties or disorders include the Strange Situation procedure (Mary Ainsworth), the separation and reunion procedure and the Preschool Assessment of Attachment ("PAA"), the Observational Record of the Caregiving Environment ("ORCE") and the Attachment Q-sort ("AQ-sort").
48 49 The mechanisms underlying this association are unclear; the relationship may reflect socio-economic disadvantage, parental aspirations, early attachment, neurological difficulties or a direct role of breast milk in neuronal development.
Maternal depression is of concern not only because of its effects on the mother's health and functioning, but also because it is associated with negative child developmental outcomes including cognitive delay, insecure attachment, and difficulties with behavioural and emotional development [ 1].
