It has significant effects on children's behavior: higher rates of infant behavioral problems, impaired social development, delayed cognitive development, and insecure attachment patterns [3].
Those described as ambivalent or avoidant during childhood can become securely attached as adults, while those with a secure attachment in childhood can
show insecure attachment patterns in adulthood.
There are two
organized insecure attachment patterns; infants avoiding contact or interaction with the caregiver upon reunion and minimizing the expression of negative emotions under stress are termed avoidantly attached (A), whilst infants expressing intense negative emotions and wanting contact, but unable to settle following the separations are classified as resistantly attached (C).
Also, the main aim of this study was to examine the association between attachment and delinquency, however, it would be interesting to know
which insecure attachment patterns are most strongly linked to delinquency.
Children
with insecure attachment patterns «develop the inability to form secure attachments and react in a hostile, rejecting manner with their environment» (Pickover, 2002).
Experiencing
an insecure attachment pattern as a child can affect us in powerful ways throughout our lives.
An insecure attachment produces an adult who has difficulty with maintaining healthy relationships, as indicated by the 3
insecure attachment patterns:
That said, in his 1995 book Re-writing Family Scripts, John Byng - Hall reminds family therapists that for families with
insecure attachment patterns we, and the therapeutic space we provide, have often become a temporary secure base to facilitate change (similar to the «earned secure» base described in the trauma literature).
Experiencing
an insecure attachment pattern as a child can affect us in powerful ways throughout our lives.
If your caregiver was unresponsive, you form
an insecure attachment pattern.
Children with
insecure attachment patterns «develop the inability to form secure attachments and react in a hostile, rejecting manner with their environment» (Pickover, 2002).
These patterns have been labelled insecure.1, 2
Insecure attachment patterns have been further specified into two patterns: avoidant attachment and resistant (or ambivalent) attachment.
On the other hand, our clients» unmet dependency needs and
insecure attachment patterns can derail the therapy.
If you grew up with
an insecure attachment pattern, you may project or seek to duplicate similar patterns of relating as adults, even when these patterns hurt you and are not in your own self - interest.
Those with insecure attachment styles must reconsider and reconceptualize their current expectations and biases in close relationships that are ingrained after years of existing in
insecure attachment patterns.
Reworking couples» cycles, re-establishing connection and strengthening the emotional bond with EFT can take a couple from an anxious and
insecure attachment pattern to a more secure and safe connection.
Parents who choose an authoritarian parenting style most likely were not securely attached as children themselves, which increases the chances of passing on
insecure attachment patterns to children.