Case Study Of Laura's Relationship Issues

In this paper I will be talking about Laura, a 47 years old woman, who lives with her common law partner for 15 years. Laura has many issues that she is dealing with including depression, relationship problems, and menopause to mention few. However, for this paper, I am going to choose one out of all the issues Laura has. The issue I will be discussing is Laura’s relationship problem.
Based on information in Laura’s case, she seems not having a good relationship with partner and to make the situation even worse, Laura does not even have a flourishing relationship with her parents despite the fact that she grew up with her parent. According to Laura herself, she could only recall her only experience from her parent was nothing but total abuse, neglect, and physical punishment. She also recall that her mother always keep to herself, and Laura never got an opportunity to share father-daughter moment with her father while growing up. Based on Laura’s history, it is obvious she is missing attachment as a child from her parents. To help Laura with this situation, I will introduce and apply “Attachment Theory” as model to design appropriate solution to this issue.
Attachment theory is an in depth emotional bond between one person and another. John …show more content…
In this secure base, the children learn from the environment and are able to freely apply their abilities. In other word, secure base allows children to be independent in the presence of their caregivers. This means that the child has internal representation of him/herself in relation to a caregiver. Because Laura did not have a secure base with her parents as a child, she did not have the opportunity to represent herself in relation to her