Not exact matches
Join Dr. Jon Baylin for an overview of the science of
attachment and
how early experiences shape brain development.
Understand your
early experiences with
attachment, and
how those play out in your relationship now.
Attachment theory will be a familiar concept for social workers who work with children; a model to understand
how early experiences of care influence a child's strategies for gaining protection and comfort.
Briefly, researchers think of adult
attachment as a tendency to approach relationships in a particular way, primarily based on
experiences with childhood caregivers.2 Usually, researchers view
attachment in terms of the degree and kind of insecurity (avoidance or anxiety) a person might have (see our
earlier work for a full review of
how attachment styles play out in relationships).
Adults who have never addressed problems with
attachment and who see the result of
attachment issues in their lives might, in treatment, identify and explore
early losses, grieve for the childhood bonds that were not
experienced, and gain closure while learning
how to develop healthy
attachments and accept love, if they have difficulty doing so.
As a psychotherapist, I operate primarily from an
attachment based psycho - dynamic perspective, which focuses on
how early attachment relationships influence current behavior, and
how past
experiences, unconscious factors, current circumstances, and biological factors, continue to influence our mental health.
Acknowledging that personal dispositions are ingrained in the genetics and are reinforced by the
early experiences and
attachment bonds, this paper reviews the role of personal dispositions on marital outcomes and examines
how negative outcomes can be curbed by therapeutic interventions.
Filled with evocative, «
how - to - do - it» examples, it is grounded in extensive clinical
experience and cutting - edge research on
early development,
attachment, neurobiology, and trauma.
Attachment theory describes
how our
early relationships with a primary caregiver, most commonly a parent, create our expectation for
how we
experience love in relationships.
Track
how body structure, posture, gesture and movement reflects and sustains
early childhood
experience; interventions to alter the legacy of
early attachment
We do not yet have definitive evidence that securely attached and insecurely attached children do, in fact, grow up to become adults with corresponding mental representations; however, there is indirect evidence that they do.45 It is becoming more and more clear that
early attachment experiences are the primary learning ground upon which one learns
how to relate to other people.
How well the child's
early attachment system is / was able to support the child, including the family's culture and the caregiver's own
experience of being cared for, and
Learn
how thwarted
attachment experiences and trauma that occur
early in life affect the capacity of the individual for regulation, connection and present awareness.
What has not been examined is
how such variation in EEG activity (e.g., alpha power) among children who have
experienced severe social deprivation
early in life is associated with the development of social skills and the effects of
early attachment experiences on those social skills.