His medications were prescribed to treat the ADHD and his / our counseling and or parenting techniques were tailored to address
attachment type behavior.
Not exact matches
Dianne C. Kuchlak, LCSW
Attachment Therapy and Family Counseling 47 Marchwood Road, Suite 2H Exton, PA 19341 (610) 280-9555 e-mail:
[email protected] Website: www.attachmentdisorderhelp.com Eclectic approach, using Martha Welch -
type holding (coaching the parents - no therapist holding); Theraplay -
type structured play activities; Family Narrative Therapy; therapist - directed nurturing of the child by the parents; parent education to facilitate understanding of and empathy toward the child's
behavior and provide effective parenting tools; and correction of cognitive distortions.
adult
attachment interview (Main et al) continuity between early
attachment type and adult classification /
behaviors — credit knowledge of procedure and coding system (insecure - dismissing, autonomous - secure, insecure - preoccupied, unresolved).
65 % of this group were classified as disorganised
attachment (a
type of insecure
attachment were the children display an inconsistent pattern of
behavior; sometimes they show strong
attachment other times they avoid the caregiver).
Play therapy has been widely researched as an effective and developmentally appropriate method for working with children dealing with the following
types of concerns, among others: depression, grief and loss, social adjustment problems, speech difficulties, trauma, hospitalization, reading difficulties, selective mutism, enuresis and encopresis problems, fear and anxiety, abuse and neglect, aggression / acting out
behaviors,
attachment difficulties, autism, chronic illness and disability, and parental separation or divorce.
Attachment - related interpretation bias was not directly related to any
type of problem
behavior.
Egeland and Sroufe1 pointed out the dramatically negative impact of neglecting or abusive maternal
behavior for
attachment and personality development, for which they accumulated unique prospective evidence in later phases of the Minnesota study.2 What do we know about the association between child maltreatment and
attachment, what are the mechanisms linking maltreatment with
attachment insecurity and disorganization, and what
type of
attachment - based interventions might be most effective?
This is consistent with findings of the meta - analysis by Fearon et al. (2010) showing that the relation between
attachment and externalizing
behavior problems was moderated by the
type of
attachment measure.
Lamb (1977) criticized that Ainsworth strange situation experiment only studies the child
behavior with mother and not the other
types of
attachments to a father, grandmother etc..