
This free online course teaches how early attachment parenting can benefit and promote better child development. Becoming a parent can be daunting, particularly with numerous beliefs on how you should bring up a child. This course discusses how different attachment types affect children. You will discover the history of attachment theory and explore how attachment-based parenting and skin-to-skin contact supports infant brain development. Following that, we will learn how healthcare professionals and fathers can encourage and promote breastfeeding.
| Course Category | Child Development, Education |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Summarise the history of attachment theory and different types of attachments • Outline the important facts about infants' attachment to their parents at birth • Discuss how skin-to-skin contact can support infant brain development • Describe the benefits of breastfeeding for infants and mothers • Explain how to pay attention to a baby's crying properly • Outline the role of health workers and fathers in promoting breastfeeding • Summarise the concept of co-sleeping in terms of attachment parenting • Outline the issues faced by working mothers in attachment parenting |
| Course Code | 1033 |



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