The essential features of the child's psychological experience surrounding parental alienation that are key to the child's therapy and a restoration of the child's
affectional bond with the currently targeted - rejected parent
Not exact matches
They have identified a number of different attachment styles to describe the
affectional bond children have
with their parents or caregivers.
The warmth dimension has to do
with the quality of the
affectional bond between parents and their children, and
with the physical and verbal behaviors parents use to express their feelings.
As
with all
affectional bonds — such as those felt for significant others and attachment figures — individuals are likely to feel the need to establish at least periodic physical closeness or proximity to their partner, experience «distress upon inexplicable separation, pleasure or joy upon reunion, and grief at loss...» (Ainsworth, 1989, p. 711).
Inexplicable separation tends to cause distress, and permanent loss would cause grief... An» attachment» is an
affectional bond, and hence an attachment figure is never wholly interchangeable
with or replaceable by another, even though there may be others to whom one is also attached.
I define an «
affectional bond» as a relatively long - enduring tie in which the partner is important as a unique individual and is interchangeable
with none other.
Who we choose for a spouse, why we choose this person, and how we relate to this person, that's the attachment system operating within us (Feeney & Noller, 1990; Hazan & Shaver, 1987; Roisman, et al., 2001; Simpson, 1990) When we argue and fight
with our spouse, trying to improve our relationship and restore our
affectional bonding, that's the attachment system motivating us.
Attachment theory posits a causal relationship between individuals» experience
with their parents or attachment figures and their capacity to form
affectional bonds later on.