{"id":452,"date":"2025-07-22T14:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/?p=452"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:58:51","slug":"video-attachment-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/video-attachment-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Video | &#8220;Attachment Theory&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This short documentary from the American Museum of Natural History\u2019s Science Bulletins series offers a compelling overview of attachment theory, first developed by psychologist John Bowlby in 1958. It emphasizes how early bonds between parent and child are critical for healthy emotional and physiological development, linking insecure attachment in early childhood to long-term psychological issues and even biological effects, such as diminished cortisol levels. In a criminology classroom, the video can be used to explore psychological explanations of criminal behavior by highlighting how disrupted attachment may impair stress regulation, empathy, and impulse control. It also provides a science-based foundation for discussing early intervention strategies as potential crime prevention tools, inviting students to think critically about the intersection of developmental psychology and criminal justice policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Science Bulletins: Attachment Theory\u2014Understanding the Essential Bond\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kwxjfuPlArY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short documentary from the American Museum of Natural History\u2019s Science Bulletins series offers a compelling overview of attachment theory, first developed by psychologist John Bowlby in 1958. It emphasizes how early bonds between parent and child are critical for healthy emotional and physiological development, linking insecure attachment in early childhood to long-term psychological issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-psychological-theories","7":"category-video","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}