«This book takes the foundation of attachment theory and brings it alive in the face of the most challenging behaviors that parents may face when parenting children with
early attachment disruption histories.
When infants do not experience safe and nurturing relationships, they are more like to experience
early attachment disruptions that affect all areas of development (National Research Institute of Medicine, 2000).
Not exact matches
HER focuses on strengthening the parent - infant relationship and repairing the impact of
disruptions in
early attachment to promote child development and healthy family functioning.
Disruption of the fundamental
attachment process
early in a child's life logically will have detrimental effects on the psychological and emotional wellbeing of that child.
Attachment disorder is a treatable condition in which individuals have difficulty trusting anyone or creating loving, lasting intimate relationships due to serious
disruptions in forming that bond during
early childhood.
Forty years of primate research has firmly established that
early disruption of the social
attachment bond reduces the long term capacity to cope with subsequent social
disruptions and to modulate physiological arousal.
On the other hand, sometimes it can be difficult for EMDR trained clinicians to establish the connecting thread between the patient's symptoms (including the frequent difficulties they present in the therapeutic relationship) and the
early environments in which they grew up, characterized by a high rate of
attachment disruptions and severe traumatic events.
My work with families is from an
attachment based focus meaning that problems within the family system may reflect unaddressed
attachment disruptions in an
earlier generation that unknowingly get perpetuated in the current generation.