The reduced amount of conflicts may be because the family has found a functional approach to the child by avoiding conflicts, using
avoidant strategies to balance the child's temperament to motivate and calm down, or as rewards.
Children with
avoidant strategies tend to have had consistently inaccessible, interfering, or rejecting caregivers who minimize and are insensitive toward their needs.
Parental modelling of fearful behaviour and
avoidant strategies is also likely to increase a child's risk of developing later emotional health problems.6 An anxious parent may be more likely to model anxious behaviour or may provide threat and avoidant information to their child, increasing the child's risk of anxiety disorder.
Being open to influence requires a man to let go of
avoidant strategies like distancing, attacking, and defensiveness.
Single motherhood, rather than reflecting
an avoidant strategy in which close relationships are devalued, is often the result of ecological conditions in which paternal investment is desired but unavailable.
Not exact matches
People who score high on short - term
strategies also tend to be emotionally
avoidant.
Avoidant and ambivalent attachment patterns also have different adaptive values for boys and girls, in the context of same - sex competition in the peer group: in particular, the competitive and aggressive traits related to avoidant attachment can be favored as a status - seeking strategy fo
Avoidant and ambivalent attachment patterns also have different adaptive values for boys and girls, in the context of same - sex competition in the peer group: in particular, the competitive and aggressive traits related to
avoidant attachment can be favored as a status - seeking strategy fo
avoidant attachment can be favored as a status - seeking
strategy for males.
The secure partner's patience may also help
avoidants heal from past wounds that have made withdrawal and distance their go - to
strategies and comfort zones.
Deactivating
strategies are the mental processes by which
Avoidant people convince themselves that relationships are not that important and their need for connection and closeness is less than others.
These deactivating
strategies are also used when an
Avoidant person is in a relationship.
Avoidant people often long for relationships when they are alone although they use «deactivating
strategies» to cope.
Nevertheless, men engage in more problem - focused and
avoidant coping behaviors, whereas women are more likely to use
strategies that involve verbal expressions to others or themselves, to seek emotional support, to ruminate about problems, and to use positive self - talk.
Consistently with the literature (Aldao et al., 2010; Wells, 2008; Clark & Beck, 2009), the aim of the present study was to investigate the associations between negative beliefs about emotions and the adoption of maladaptive regulation
strategies (i.e. rumination, suppression, emotional avoidance, and
avoidant coping).
Given what you describe about your ex's behavior, it is possible that she terminated the relationship because of having an
avoidant attachment style, meaning that she is fearful about entering and becoming too close to others.1 People with
avoidant attachment styles are more likely than people with other styles to end relationships when they start getting too intimate2 and to use indirect
strategies to do so, such as avoiding direct communication about the real problems that are leading to the break - up.3 In other words, she may have been holding back negative feelings.
Partners who are more
avoidant — preferring to steer clear of emotional closeness and intimacy — are more likely to use
strategies like withdrawal (the least ideal
strategy), manipulation, and mediated communication, and less likely to use open confrontation.
Certain people, namely those with an
avoidant attachment personality (i.e., fear closeness), are more likely to use the
avoidant breakup
strategies.2 Second, a person might feel less compassionate love (i.e., care and empathy) towards her or his soon to be ex - partner.3 Finally, there might be some situational factors that shape a person's choice to ghost a partner.
A range of skills for working with narcissistic,
avoidant and obsessive coping modes including
strategies for overcoming mode - based resistance to change
Those with
avoidant attachment
strategies ignore or are indifferent toward their caregivers and show little signs of distress.
The other two insecure attachment styles did provide the child with a coping
strategy: •
Avoidant attachment was characterized by the child's emotional disengagement - a defensive
strategy to the mother's lack of response; «Why bother reaching out when nothing happens»!
Many of these issues Dr. Muller has discussed in his new academic book, Trauma and the
Avoidant Client: Attachment - Based
Strategies for Healing (W.W. Norton, 2010).
In this presentation, Dr. Muller will introduce therapeutic techniques he has developed specifically for this population, which are detailed in his new book, Trauma and the
Avoidant Client: Attachment - Based
Strategies for Healing.
This workshop focuses on techniques Dr. Muller developed specifically for this population, included in his award - winning academic book, Trauma and the
Avoidant Client: Attachment - Based
Strategies for Healing (2010, W.W. Norton).
More in detail, across the three conditions, anxious participants showed more negative emotional behaviors and responses, looking for more physical proximity and support seeking than
avoidant participants that, they acted by using more deactivating
strategies.
This series of inspiring, interactive workshops provides the practical applications and
strategies therapists need to confidently address client's Secure,
Avoidant, Ambivalent / Anxious, Disorganized Attachment Styles.
These various contradictory and un-integrated behaviours are thought to indicate the infant's inability to organize a coherent
strategy for eliciting comfort from the caregiver and are differentially associated with increased release of stress hormones.1, 2 Disorganized attachment behaviours may occur in combination with other insecure behaviours that are part of an
avoidant or ambivalent attachment
strategy.
Higher daily experience of problems was linked to more negative coping (as measured using a standardized instrument), suggesting that those who experience more problems or stressful events are more likely to engage in dysfunctional,
avoidant coping
strategies, in line with previous research [65 - 67].
Parents with an anxious attachment orientation may use hyperactivating
strategies of dealing with distress (19), adopting
strategies focused on negative emotions for both their own and their children's distress; on the other hand, parents with an
avoidant attachment may imply deactivating
strategies and emotional inhibition to cope with stressful situations and negative emotions (19).
The results indicated infants with autonomous foster parents and infants placed at younger ages showed higher early and overall levels of secure behavior, less
avoidant behavior, and more coherent attachment
strategies compared to infants placed with nonautonomous foster parents.
Collectively the associative and predictive findings strongly suggest that escapist /
avoidant coping
strategies can robustly predict higher distress levels and can therefore be considered a risk factor for psychological distress in this patient group.
Meta - analytic evidence [59] rather suggests, that the association between insecure attachment and internalizing
strategies is rather small, and the effect solely explained by
avoidant (i.e. dismissing) attachment.
For CKD, type of coping
strategy is associated with compliance [27], and in patients with end - stage renal disease, there is evidence that
avoidant coping is related to mortality [28].
Conversely escapist /
avoidant coping
strategies were consistently linked to higher distress levels before treatment and at several time points following a failed cycle.
Escapist and
avoidant coping
strategies such as distraction have been shown to reduce anxiety, fear and pain in situations such as medical procedures (Lee et al., 2012) or exposure to feared stimuli (Johnstone and Page, 2004) and could therefore be considered highly adaptive for dealing with these particular situations.