The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; George & Main, 1984) provides rich information on a parent's current state of mind
about attachment relationships, both past and present.
If we think
about attachment relationships, one of the things that attachment relationships does, is makes this child feel important.
Not exact matches
Attachment theory helps us understand our misconceptions
about who God is and how we approach a
relationship with him.
And, indeed, the most effective
attachment - focused home - visiting interventions offer parents not just parenting tips but psychological and emotional support: The home visitors, through empathy and encouragement, literally make them feel better
about their
relationship with their infant and more secure in their identity as parents.
Learning
about our early
attachment relationships with our parents can give us insight into our own adult
relationships, and especially into our marital
relationship.
I recently read a book called Attached
about the three different styles of
attachment that people express in
relationships.
At the end of the day
Attachment Parenting is an overall philosophy, a belief
about the
relationship you want to develop with your children.
... found myself in an interchange
about the ways that
attachment wounds can show up in adult
relationships.
Incorporating specialized training on brain development as well as knowledge
about attachment styles allows her to provide a unique perspective on parent - child
relationships and on the often mind boggling experience of parenting.
It serves as a cautionary tale that we parents must take care to be intentional
about promoting secure
attachment in our
relationships with our children and in guarding our children's hearts while we guide them through how we discipline.
I'm usually writing
about breastfeeding,
attachment parenting, sleep deprivation and
relationships.
Who can help if there are concerns
about early
attachment relationships?
Bowlby developed the theory of
attachment because one of his goals was to preserve some of Freud's insights
about relationships and early experiences by casting them in a more scientifically defensible framework.
More than almost any other aspect of
attachment parenting, I'm asked
about my
relationship with my husband.
Attachment parenting is
about raising children using parenting methods that strengthen
relationships, foster empathy, and teach nonviolent communication.
This highly - regarded training is set within the very new and groundbreaking research into what we now know
about how parents change and how secure
attachment is operationalised in the earliest
relationship.
Attachment theory is a theory
about relationships, based on the idea that human beings evolved in kinship groups and that human survival was enhanced by the maintenance of secure bonds between parents and children and with members of the wider group [i](Holmes, 1993).
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Attachment Parenting is as much
about Dad's
relationship with the kids as Mom.
Read more
about how insecure
attachment affects us from childhood through adulthood, and how it may be affecting your relationships today, and what to do about that — both for yourself and for your children — in the new ebook, Attachment Matters, available only through Attachment Parenting Internatio
attachment affects us from childhood through adulthood, and how it may be affecting your
relationships today, and what to do
about that — both for yourself and for your children — in the new ebook,
Attachment Matters, available only through Attachment Parenting Internatio
Attachment Matters, available only through
Attachment Parenting Internatio
Attachment Parenting International (API).
If we are not mindful
about how to consciously adapt to one another's style of relating, our subconscious
attachment styles developed in childhood will reign in the
relationship.
Making informed decisions
about childbirth, newborn care, and parenting practices is a critical investment in the
attachment relationship between parent and child.
They talk
about stress and depression, suicide prevention, parenting and
relationships, and most especially,
attachment disorder.
Instead, their research indicated that the best predictor of adult
attachment style was the perceptions that people have
about the quality of their
relationships with their parents as well as their parent's
relationship with each other.
Hazan and Shaver also found varied beliefs
about relationships amongst adults with differing
attachment styles.
They found that people high in the psychological attribute called
attachment anxiety (a tendency to worry
about the proximity and availability of a romantic partner) responded to memories of a
relationship breakup with an increased preference for warm - temperature foods over cooler ones: soup over crackers.
Are you serious
about the long term
relationship than build up
attachment with single women is awesome and meaningful.
However, if you're looking to get into a long term
relationship, emotional
attachment is another critical aspect that you need to be concerned
about.
«I'm very much
about the inner work of addressing not just childhood trauma but also the way our
attachment styles and
relationship habits and patterns impact on our adult
relationships — especially our most intimate
relationship.»
The way your romantic
relationships play out in life is deeply rooted in your story of love — your
attachment style, love languages, patterns, behaviours, choices and key decisions you've made
about yourself and your place in the world.
Some of the things that one would want to focus on in terms of building positive
relationships are some things that we find, for example, in
attachment research which talks
about parent - child
relationships and how those change through development.
But life in India is all
about relationships and most people quickly develop a keen sense of the balance between
attachment and detachment.
The story is a lovely blend of information
about Green's life, her
relationship with Matt, her growing
attachment to the kittens (and their mama), and her growing
attachment to the eclectic community and its residents.
Together we will learn
about patterns, triggers, negative thoughts and cycles, feelings, past and present
attachment injuries, and how they affect the
relationship.
Attachment theory forms the basis for many best - selling books on the parent / child
relationship, but there has yet to be an accessible guide to what this fascinating science has to tell us
about adult romantic
relationships - until now.
Daydreaming
about a shared future - especially if you do it with your partner - is a way of strengthening pair bonds, increasing
attachment levels, and telling these biological drives to rest easy: this
relationship is going to go the distance.8
In this podcast Alanis talks with Dr. Sue Johnson
about bonding,
attachment and adult romantic
relationships.
Patients share with me their previous experiences with therapists where they asked ignorant questions (quizzing a gay male patient
about his HIV status immediately upon mentioning that he has sex with men, grimacing at the mention of anal sex, assuming that an individual who is contemplating an open
relationship has difficulties with
attachment or intimacy before exploring the nature of their interest).
The trouble with
attachment - based therapy is its forte is talking
about feelings, but it doesn't line up with how sex operates in committed
relationships.
Want to learn more
about the way your
attachment style impacts your
relationship satisfaction and happiness?
The answer is, the way you felt, and may still feel,
about your early
relationship experiences with and between your parents influence your adult
relationship patterns or
attachment style.
Attachment anxiety — or feeling insecure
about the
relationship and the emotions within it — can be remedied.
These early experiences in
relationships form the internal working models that are the basis of future
attachments (Bretherton, 1992) and inform the general conclusions young people make
about themselves and others.
Young people enter programs with working models of past
attachment that assume adults can not be trusted and will provoke adults to fit into their beliefs
about relationship (Pazaratz, 2003).
However, because we did not ask the question directly, we can not draw strong conclusions
about the extent to which interventions are directly aimed at improving or repairing
attachment relationships.
Susan Johnson, the founder of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, is perhaps one of Perel's most impassioned critics, insisting that her approach flies in the face of 30 years of empirical findings
about the crucial role of
attachment in intimate
relationships.
In a similar way Wieland et al. (1992) found that former residential youths gave a positive judgement
about their residential experiences if their
relationships with the staff was exclusive and therefore relevant with regard to
attachment.
I am your neighbour / Ideas
about the family / Ideals and limitations / Identities / Identity and
relationship / Identity vs role confusion / Image of social care / Immediacy / Impediments to permanency / Importance of cooperation / Importance of fathers / Impulsivity and irrational beliefs / In - between / Including families / Inclusion / Independent living / Independent living skills / Indications for treatment / Individual and residential treatment / Individual antisepsis / Individual demands / Individual differences / Individual experiences / Individual recognition / Individual sessions / Individuals and groups / Indoor noise / Indulging the deprived child / Inner pain / Inner world / Innovative book / Insecure
attachment / Inside kid / Institutional care in Germany / Interactive learning / Intercultural
relationships / Interest contagion / Intergenerational programs / Intergenerational theory / Intergenerational work / Internal / external control / Interpersonal dependence / Interpersonal responses / Interpretation as interference / Interpreting behaviour / Interpretive systems / Inter-staff
relationships / Intervention environment / Interventions / Interview / Intimate familiarity / Introducing supervision / Intuitive decision - making / Investment in
relationships / Invisible suffering / Involvement of families / Involving families / Involving young people / Irish view / Irrational acceptance / Isibindi project / Isolation rooms / I've been an adult too long
Attachment has been described as; «the leading edge of a revolution that promises to change the way we think
about ourselves, our
relationships, our children and our society» i.
Successful couples counseling is
about building a safe and secure
attachment to each other so that you feel free to express yourselves effectively inside and outside of the
relationship.
In episode 119 is
about how the
attachments you have in childhood can affect your adult
relationships.