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Attachment style refers to |
person’s characteristic ways of relating in intimate caregiving and receiving relationships. |
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The concept of attachment style involves one’s |
confidence in the ability of the attachment figure as a secure base from which the individual can freely explore the world |
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it is important for the therapist to become a reliable and trustworthy companion in the patient’s exploration because the psychotherapist can |
become an attachment figure for the patient |
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Early findings suggest that patient attachment may change as a result of |
psychotherapy |
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ecurely attached patients tend to benefit more from psychotherapy than |
insecurely attached patients |
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he strength of the relationship between attachment security and treatment outcome |
remains unclear |
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The caregiver’s reliable and sensitive provision of loving care results in a |
secure bond btw the infant and the caregiver |
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attachment-related behavior in infancy is part of a functional |
biological system |
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3 functions of attachment |
increases the likelihood of protection from dangers and predation, comfort during times of stress, and social learning |
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Based on Bowlby’s attachment theory, Aimsworth and colleagues developed a laboratory method called |
The Strange Situation |
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Studies have found strong evidence for the influence of attachment patterns on |
later adaptation |
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A growing body of research suggests that patterns of attachment are both relatively stable |
subject to change |
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Attachment patterns |
are influenced by a variety of factors including ongoing relationships with family members, romantic relationships, traumatic life events, and possibly psychotherapy |
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4 Attachment Types |
Secure Preoccupied Dismissing Fearful |
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In the 14 studies, patients’ attachment style appears to contribute almost as much variance to psychotherapy outcome as does |
the alliance |
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Perhaps the capacity to develop a positive therapeutic alliance is enhanced by |
a patient’s level of attachment security |
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the formation of a positive therapeutic alliance may serve as one mechanism by which a patient’s level of attachment security leads to |
better psychotherapy outcomes |
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Expect longer and more difficult treatment with anxiously attached patients, but quicker and more positive outcomes with |
securely attached patients |
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If the patient is dismissing in his or her attachment, the therapist may need to |
be more engaged |
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If the patient is preoccupied, the therapist should consider a stance designed to help the patient |
contain his or her emotional experience |
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With regard to patients who score high on both the attachment anxiety and avoidance dimensions, it is especially important to attend |
the structure of their internal working models |
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Attachment can be a goal of |
treatment |
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3 terms commonly used to characterize the infants relationshop with his mother |
object relations dependency attachment |
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The "object" of an instinct is the |
agent through which the instinctual aim is achieved |
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It is generally agreed that an infant's first object is |
his mother |
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dependency has been especially linked to |
social learning theories |
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Dependency was first defined as a |
learned drive |
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dependency is more recently viewed by learning theorists as a class of behaviors learned in |
the context of the infant's dependency relationship with his mother |
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Dependence should gradually give way to a substantial degree of |
independence |
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attachment refers to an affectional tie that one person forms to |
another specific individual |
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An attachment tends to |
endure |
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According to Freud's instinct theory, an instinctual drive has both a source and an aim, both of which are |
genetically determined |
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signal anxiety is when |
separation signals the danger to the child that his bodily needs will go unsatisfied |
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Ego psychology |
the development of objecy relations is intertwined with ego development |
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object relations theory |
object relations are primary, rather than secondary and acquired |
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The development of obj relations is seen as going thru 3 main stages |
1. objectless stage 2. transitional stage 3. object relations stage |
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