Attachment therapy

they want to be different in their lives without judgment or pressure to conform to outside standards. In addition, the focus on client strengths and internal goals is empowering for clients (Miller & Rollnick, 2013). Horay (2006) describes an art therapy client who created a four-quadrant collage including pros of using drugs, cons of using drugs, pros of not using, and cons of not using. This was made over several sessions and inspired the client to collaboratively examine his own ambivalent…

al., 2014). Gabriels et al. (2012) did a pilot study to evaluate the effects of equine therapy on self-regulation behaviors, adaptive skills, and motor skills of school age children to adolescents diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This study had 42 participants that were split up into groups of three to four to participate in the riding lessons. The lessons were focused on the individual’s therapy and their horsemanship. The instructors set individual therapeutic and horsemanship…

need love and attachments like we need water and air. As we move throughout our lives from babies to adults, attachments have essential roles to play from making sure our biological needs are met to providing us with comfort, trust, and a sense of interconnectedness. Since attachments are such an integral and emotional part of our lives, it makes sense that when we are separated from or lose people we are attached to it can be an excruciating experience. For children losing attachment figures…

youth. According to Bowlby’s attachment behavior (as cited in Maldonado, 2009) hierarchal system of attachment figures are symbolic to attachment disturbance and may accent a predisposition in future behaviors and psychological distress if the youth is unable to attain or maintain closeness to another individual or hierarchal system of attachment figures. The risk factors associated with mental health and being a part of the child welfare system correlates with attachment experiences and how…

1997). The way the brain fills the gaps between the inputs suggests how we experience the world is greatly influenced by our individual past and present experiences (see Baars, 1997; Galotti; 2013). This tendency may help us understand some of the therapy clients’ experience and relationship with the world. Comprehension of ourselves and the environment we find ourselves in are products of our cognitive inputs and unconsciousness. The unconscious process helps us to experience the world as…

interactions with their parent’s and other close relatives. The first year of emotional development is dependant on a child’s emotional communication with their parents-- this happens through the recognition of “attunement” and the development of secure attachments to the primary caregiver. Attunement is the process of aligning one’s “state of mind” with another, as well as the ability to read emotional signals (Schore & Schore, pg. 10). Eye contact and facial expressions are a necessity for…

Attachment can be described as the emotional bond that connects one person to another person. According to John Bowlby (1969) explained that it is a “lasting psychological connectedness between human beings”. Basically, attachment theory can be described on how a child interacts with the adults caring for him or her. If a child has a strong attachment, this means that the child can be confident that the caregiver or the adult will respond to the child's needs, an example would be if a child is…

depression or distress due to separation, which can cause deficiency within social, academic, and occupational functioning. However, those are the most common behaviors, others involve refusal to go to sleep or school without attaining that specific attachment or in the presence their own home. Individuals may consume continuous separation nightmares, intensive worry or fright involving…

The Influence of Attachment Styles throughout Life Many individuals do not stop to examine the interactions they experience with others around them on a daily basis and the effects that these interactions may have on their lives. Often times, the ways that we communicate and treat others is regarded as unimportant or fully ignored. Countless studies have been conducted on various types of attachment styles, focusing on exposures at infancy, to the parental interactions in the adolescent years,…

Infant Cognitive Development Bonding and attachment are often interchangeable terminology utilized to describe the connection between parents and infants (Redshaw, & Martin, 2013). Often a mother becomes attached to a child simply from the action of pregnancy and feeling the child growing, moving even hiccupping fosters an attachment based on this physical experience (Redshaw, & Martin, 2013). Bonding, however, occurs post birth, this is a bond that is developed within the first hours,…