A 4-year-old girl lives at the homeless shelter. She displays developmentally inappropriate social relatedness. For example, she displays indiscriminate sociability by being reluctant to get to know her caregivers at the daycare and displays excessive resistance to comforting.
After getting the patients social history, it is determined that the child’s basic emotional needs for comfort, stimulation, and affection have not been met by her primary caregiver. Source: ProfProfs Discuss