Postnatal Bonding and Barriers: a Literature Review on Helping Secure Mother-Infant Attachment

The purpose of this literature review is to explore obstacles that interfere with mother-infant attachment, and what can be done to overcome these barriers. Poor mother-infant attachment can lead to strained relationships in adulthood, the worsening of pre-existing mental health issues in mothers, and a myriad of negative side effects in children, impaired social and emotional health among them. This paper examines peer-reviewed articles on obstacles to mother-infant bonding and proposes potential solutions. Methods that were found to enhance attachment include maximizing skin to skin contact, treating postpartum pathology, and reducing emotional distress in pregnancy and labor.https://digitalcommons.slc.edu/undergrad_selectedworks/1011/thumbnail.jp

Sensory Processing Disorder and Solutions: An Overview of How to Help Children Living with SPD

The purpose of this thesis is to offer children with Sensory Processing Disorder and their families solutions to everyday sensory processing challenges. Interviews conducted with occupational therapists offer insight into treatment. Ways in which supports in the home, in occupational therapy, play, and other areas of children’s lives can help children living with SPD are researched and discussed. The goal is to help children better regulate their sensory processing and feel empowered in the process

How to look good (nearly) naked: the performative regulation of the swimmer's body

This article explores the discursive construction, regulation and performance of the body in the context of the swimming pool. The near-naked state of the swimmers body presents a potential threat to the interaction order, insofar as social encounters may be misconstrued as sexual, and so rituals are enacted to create a `civilized definition of the situation. The term `performative regulation is introduced to theorize this process, as a synergy of the symbolic interactionist models of dramaturgy (Goffman) and negotiated order (Strauss) and the post-structuralist concept of disciplinary power (Foucault). The regulation and representation of the swimmers body can be understood as mutually constitutive mechanisms, enforced by the pool-as-institution but enacted through the embodied practices of individual actors in the pool-as-interaction. Crossleys notion of reflexive body techniques is applied to interpret this dualistic process in relation to communicative gestures and facework rituals, which implicates both individual and social bodies in the somatization of the interaction order

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