Resource Tag: ATTACHMENT THEORY

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Suicide is a devastating event for individuals, families, and societies. With a conservative estimate of 1 million deaths worldwide per year as the result of suicide, it affects every fabric of society. In addition to managing the trauma of the death, it is family structure and processes that are altered in significant ways, specifically with […]

Continuing Bonds were less predictive of Complicated Grief symptomatology for individuals with high anxiety and low avoidance, and most predictive of intense grieving for bereaved people whose attachment styles were more highly avoidant and minimally anxious. These findings suggest the relevance of evaluating the appropriateness of clinical techniques that emphasize or deemphasize the CB for […]

Attachment-Based Family Therapy is a treatment model designed specifically for depressed and suicidal adolescents. The primary goal of the treatment is to promote developmentally appropriate adolescentÐparent attachment. Three core interventions are discussed: relational reframes; focusing on primary emotions and unmet attachment needs; and facilitating corrective attachment episodes. For each intervention, the theoretical/clinical rationale is presented […]

While secure attachment may buffer the effect of adverse early experiences on the development of behavioral problems in children, whether attachment security may provide resilience against problematic substance use in adulthood is less clear, and addressed by this study. Participants who reported greater attachment security were significantly less likely to engage in problematic substance use.

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Although attachment theory has become one of the primary paradigms for understanding bereavement adaptation, there has been surprisingly little empirical work on this topic. Two studies investigated the role of attachment in coping with the loss of a loved one. Study 1 examined the unique contribution of attachment anxiety and avoidance in prolonged grief symptomatology […]

This study examined whether Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) was associated with decreases in maternal psychological control and increases in maternal psychological autonomy granting, and whether such changes were associated with changes in adolescents’ attachment schema and psychological symptoms. Eighteen suicidal adolescents and their mothers received 12 weeks of ABFT. Maternal psychological control and autonomy granting […]

This study examined if attachment patterns mediated the link between childhood maltreatment and total daily and interpersonally oriented life hassles in 135 low-income, inner-city, suicidal African American women. Participants completed self-report measures of childhood maltreatment, attachment styles, and daily life hassles dimensions. Bootstrapping analyses revealed that (a) negative views of self mediated the relationship between […]

Social networking sites serve as both a source of information and a source of tension between romantic partners. Previous studies have investigated the use of Facebook for monitoring former and current romantic partners, but why certain individuals engage in this behavior has not been fully explained. College students (N=328) participated in an online survey that […]

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among college age students experiences in close friendship, emotional autonomy, & reasons to live. A final sample of 441 undergraduate students participated. Results indicated a significant negative association between attachment anxiety & reasons to live implying that students that are more confident in a friends’ […]

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This book is meant to provide a full-spectrum view of suicide & recovery for both suicidal people & those bereaved by suicide. To create a better understanding of the suicidal mind, the factors that lead to self-destructive acts are examined. A new model designed for the professional bereaved by client suicide is included. The final […]

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Among 180 Turkish university students, the probability of suicide was strongly predicted by both hopelessness & deficiencies in problem solving. In addition, for women, unhealthy attachment styles (preoccupied & dismissing) also predicted suicidality. The clinical implications of these findings are that psychotherapists should focus on helping suicidal adolescents improve their problem solving skills & decreasing […]

This article includes a discussion between J Mann and J G Gunderson.

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This article describes how parent-adolescent conflict can be conceptualized from a systems-based attachment model. This conceptualization shifts the focus of conflictual interactions from blaming the parent or the adolescent to viewing the conflict as an attempt to re-establish security needs of the adolescent. Case examples are provided to illustrate how various types of insecure behaviours […]

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