Sentences with phrase «attachment figures»

The attachment figures — parent and therapist — are responsible for the initiation of repair, not the child.

Studies examining transfer of attachment among youth identified that parents are the primary attachment figures but were later in the course of shifting attachment related functions to their peers that included best friends and romantic partners.

Furthermore, positive links between anxious attachment and crying have been established (Laan, van Assen, & Vingerhoets, 2012), and anxiously - attached individuals are similar to individuals high on maladaptive dependency in that they are guided in their behavior by the unfulfilled desire for attachment figures to pay «adequate» attention to them and provide them with reliable protection (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2003).

He suggested that the confidence in the availability of attachment figures is built from infancy through adolescence.

When removed from the attachment figures, the innate attachment system evokes mental and behavioral approach to the caregiver.

Item content of the instrument was suggested by attachment theory's formulations concerning the nature of feelings toward attachment figures.

Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy facilitates safety and new learning through the relationship that the abused and neglected child has with his therapist and actively works to replicate the characteristics of this relationship with one or more of the child's attachment figures in his daily life.

The preservation of the family secure base, proving there are no extremes in parental abuse, drugs, or alcohol, set a great example to the children and continues to provide in their primary relationships, attachment figures and environments.

The attachment framework can be applied to various attachment figures in an individual's life [20], [21], [22], [23], [24].

The present studies build on this framework that nations are socially constituted entities that are comprised as symbolic attachment figures.

The present research seeks to ameliorate this uncertainty through positing that the body metaphor stems from nations being conceptualised as attachment figures.

Activation of the attachment system in adulthood: threat - related primes increase the accessibility of mental representations of attachment figures.

[jounal] Mikulincer, M. / 2002 / Activation of the attachment system in adulthood: Threat - related primes increase the accessibility of mental representations of attachment figures / Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 83 (4): 881 ~ 895

Intrigued by this difference, Hughes and Becker - Weidman developed a specialized form of parenting that met the unique needs of the children who had suffered at the hands of their early attachment figures.

A keystone of the present research and nation attachment is the personification of nations as attachment figures, parallel to family, and specifically, to parents.

Primes of nations as attachment figures, including imagery that personify nations as symbolic caregivers, can be employed to investigate several avenues, including the effect on the acculturation orientations of both heritage and mainstream samples, endorsement of multicultural ideology, and patriotic and nationalistic attitudes.

These attachment figures are actively engaged and the caregiving behaviors that will facilitate secure attachment in the child in their care are actively supported and developed.

Brain development in infancy is «experience - dependent;» the baby's brain, specifically the limbic system, relies on sensitive and attuned care from attachment figures for healthy growth and functioning.

Hazan and Shaver moved romantic love and adult relationships into a whole new place where partners can be, and are, significant attachment figures.

This hyperactivation is initiated by the individual's confusion about the viability of seeking proximity when they need help from their attachment figures, and are impacted extensively by their internal working models.

Both the narcissistic and borderline personalities have an experience of tremendous core - self inadequacy and both believe that this core - self inadequacy will result in their being rejected and abandoned by others, principally by attachment figures.

The categories of attachment styles are now described through a two - dimensional model (Brennan et al., 1998), according to which attachment security corresponds to low avoidance and anxiety scores, reliable social interactions with attachment figures, and positive views of the self and others.

The infant's brain is an «open loop system;» it relies on attuned and nurturing input from attachment figures for healthy development.

When we can not expect the primary attachment figures in our lives to be dependable, available, or responsive, we may become insecure in our relationships and even avoidant of others.

«No variables, it is held, have more far - reaching effects on personality development than have a child's experiences within his family: for, starting during the first months of his relations with his mother figure, and extending through the years of childhood and adolescence in his relations with both parents, he builds up working models of how attachment figures are likely to behave towards him in any of a variety of situations; and on those models are based all his expectations, and therefore all his plans for the rest of his life.»

Note: Disinhibited attachment is where children don't discriminate between people they choose as attachment figures.

Childhood abuse necessitates self - alienation: we must disown that humiliating «bad child» and work harder to be the «good child» acceptable to our attachment figures.

Similarly, children without attachment figures endure great stress to the point of dysfunction and perhaps, eventually death.

Their husbands / wives / partners / closest friends... first call was to attachment figures.

Although Bowlby did not rule out the possibility of other attachment figures for a child, he did believe that there should be a primary bond which was much more important than any other (usually the mother).

According to Bowlby (1988), in psychotherapy, the therapist «provides conditions in which his patient can explore his representational models of himself and his attachment figures with a view to reappraising and restructuring them» (p. 138).

These core beliefs become the lens through which children (and later adults) view themselves and others, especially authority and attachment figures.

You're each other's primary attachment figures.

According to Bowlby (1980), an individual who has experienced a secure attachment «is likely to possess a representational model of attachment figures (s) as being available, responsive, and helpful» (Bowlby, 1980, p. 242).

Many are also harmed by their attachment figures.

They push away attachment figures to get what they desire.

In therapy, issues around separation, loss, abandonment, protection and proximity of attachment figures, coupled with concomitant rage, fear, anxiety, and depression are expressed and experienced by most dealing with the break up of a marriage relationship.

My training will include how to determine severity of attachment problems, the psychological health of attachment figures, and family dynamics that affect RAD.

They look for acceptance and regard from anyone other than their primary attachment figures.

Primary attachment figures are too threatening to children with attachment disorder because of the closeness of those relationships.

They often get stiff when their primary attachment figures hug them or they avoid the situation altogether.

No matter the quality of the parent - child relationship, parents remain the primary attachment figures in their children's lives.

It serves as an internal working model, or set of expectations about the availability of attachment figures, the likelihood of receiving support from them during times of stress, and the interaction with those figures.

Pet dogs as attachment figures.

In contrast, children rely mainly on few attachment figures and often lack the coping skills that adults have refined.

The interpersonal schema is initially based on interactions with attachment figures such as parents, permitting the individual to predict interactions in a way that increases the probability of maintaining relatedness with these figures.

Modelling healthy relationships helps children to build a network of secure attachment figures, which all contributes to developing mental wellbeing.

Young children in stressful situations: The supporting role of attachment figures and unfamiliar caregivers

I totally agree that difficulties with self regulation can arise from a lack of adult attachment figures.

In fact, memories of attachment figures who have died can be just as powerful a source of comfort as were those same attachment figures when they were still alive.