Publicación:

Revisión sistemática de literatura sobre las conductas de apego en niños con trastorno de espectro autista con relación a niños de desarrollo típico

Resumen

This research work aims to address the correlation between the terms "Autism Spectrum Disorder" (ASD) and "attachment behaviors". Zeanah (cited by Cherro and Trenchi 2007) affirms that “for the child with ASD, the human face arouses little interest, eye contact fails, attachment is poor or absent, the general lack of social interest is typical and although it is you can see some differentiated type of social response, habitual attachment patterns don't develop. Based on the above, it is common to observe that primary caregivers feel and consider that establishing attachment with their children is much more difficult than with a child from the general population. Some authors presume that, indeed, it is incompatible to relate attachment behaviors in children with ASD, while others have managed to demonstrate, thanks to different research and specialists interested in this topic, that children with this diagnosis can develop different types of attachment with their caregivers primary (Cherro and Trenchi, 2007; Sivaratnam, Newman, Tongue and Rinehart, 2015). In these studies, the main objective is to identify the behaviors that the child develops together with their primary caregiver, and research such as that of Coughlam et al. (2019) offer a new panorama about the conception of the Autism Spectrum and undoubtedly generate a discussion around this phenomenon and its relationship with attachment behaviors.