Attachment can be addressed in a variety of settings such as family support programs, adolescent parenting programs, and private clinical practices. The following strategies may be implemented with parents to build secure attachments with their infants. Encourage parents to recognize their infant's individuality. Infants enter the world with distinct personalities. Emphasize the importance of private time with infants.
Private time can include activities such as bathing, dressing, diapering, feeding, and playing.
These are times parents can focus solely on their infants. Parents often overlook infants' subtle ways of communicating. In addition, crying, frowning, and looking away are not personal attacks on the parents. Infants are expressing their emotions and needs. Prior to an infant's self-regulation of external stimuli, parents are responsible.