Welcome to the Social Work Journal with your host Deltom! This podcast is a place for healing and a place for those of us who are looking for answers to questions we have in life.

In today’s episode (recorded in April 2021) of the Social Work Journal, we talk about attachment. Attachment is the emotional bond that forms between an infant and their primary caregiver that helps evolve the child’s social, emotional, and cognitive development. Since Deltom herself is a mother of a (then 18 month-old), she wanted to share highly useful information about this topic through theory, research, and her own experiences.

[7:00] Sleep Train – Although recommended by some pediatricians, the sleep training cry-out method or the extinction method, could be very controversial as some parents believe it to be cruel

[8:30] Transitional Object – Wh ...