Category: Attachment
The Good Therapy Blog
January 25th, 2012 |
Attachment bonds are formed in early childhood. Relationships with nurturing attentive caregivers result in secure attachment bonds in children as they age. However, dismissive caregivers who neglect or avoid relationships with their children tend to cause insecure and dismissive attachment behaviors and perceptions in these children. The attachment bonds directly shape children’s internal working models (IWMs), the way in which children see the world and others around them. But little attention has been given to how these attachments... Read More
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January 3rd, 2012 |
Strong mother-daughter relationships provide many positive psychological benefits for teen girls. For African-American girls with mental health problems, this relationship may also serve to prevent risky sexual behavior that could lead to sexually transmitted infections (STIs). “Relative to other ethnic groups, African-American girls tend to initiate sex earlier, report higher rates of sexual activity during adolescence, and they account for the highest rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea,” said Erin Emerson of the Department of Psychiatry, Community Outreach Intervention Projects at the University... Read More
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December 22nd, 2011 |
Group therapy is an effective treatment method due in part to the high levels of social support that exist between the group members. “Recently, researchers have argued that the provision of support is as important for the provider as it is for the receiver, because providing support to another increases one’s personal meaning,” said Yoni Harel of the Department of Education, Counseling and Human development at Haifa University in Israel. “Group members seek support for their stressful events and provide support to each other.”
However,... Read More
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December 21st, 2011 |
Empathy is an emotion that is directly related to the bonds that were formed in childhood. “Children from secure and loving backgrounds develop enhanced motivation and competencies for empathy and compassion for self and others, in comparison with children from insecure backgrounds,” said Helen Rockliff of the Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology at the University of Bristol in the UK, and lead... Read More
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December 19th, 2011 |
Individuals who have avoidant attachment personalities struggle with intimacy and closeness. In romantic relationships, this type of personality can cause a partner to distance themselves from their loved one, and avoid physical closeness. “Because avoidantly-attached people feel most comfortable with distance and detachment from their partner, they may have less of the commitment-inspired inhibition that normally prevents people from showing interest in alternatives and from engaging in infidelity,” said C. Nathan DeWall... Read More
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December 9th, 2011 |
More people will care for an aging parent in the coming years than ever before. Advances in modern medicine have extended life expectancy and the relationship between the aging and their caregivers, whether they are family members or not, is of critical importance. “Arguably, at no time is understanding care-seekers’ wishes more important than when care-seekers are incapacitated, especially when life-or-death decisions about medical interventions are required,” said Bulent Turan of the Department of Psychology at the... Read More
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November 30th, 2011 |
Evaluating and assessing someone’s need for care is a critical component of acting as an effective and objective caregiver. However, according to a new study led by S. Jeffrey Bailey of the Department of Psychology at the University of New Brunswick Saint John in Canada, the attachment style of a caregiver can influence how they respond to a patient’s needs. “The Social Communication Model of Pain raised the possibility that characteristics of those observing pain may also influence evaluations of individuals experiencing... Read More
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September 23rd, 2011 |
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Dyadic play therapy is a form of play therapy that allows parents who have themselves suffered trauma, the opportunity to address their own symptoms and attend to the strained attachment with their child. But very often, the parents are resistant to this form of treatment. “For adult survivors of childhood trauma, psychotherapy can be both necessary and highly threatening,” said Mirisse F. Foroughe and Robert T. Muller of York University. The researchers authored a paper that explains the obstacles and benefits... Read More
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September 16th, 2011 |
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Eating issues affect millions of people throughout the world. Many struggle with anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia (BN), binge eating (BED) or other forms of eating problems. Often, these same individuals suffer with other psychological distresses including depression, anxiety and substance abuse and experience significant financial and emotional tolls. “The mortality rate for AN is the highest among all psychiatric disorders, and the eating disorders result in very high personal and economic burden,” said Giorgio A. Tasca of the Department... Read More
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August 30th, 2011 |
To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner, put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and the way he understands it.
-Soren, Kierkegaard (1848), “The Point of View for My Work as an Author”
We are nearing the end of a busy first week of school for many schools in my area. Teachers, like my wife and sister, have been slaving away in their classrooms for weeks designing bulletin boards, desk layouts, and room décor, familiarizing themselves with technology resources, creating lesson... Read More
August 3rd, 2011 |
Expectant women experience a shift in self-perception from being not a mother, to becoming a mother. Alytia A. Levondosky, Ph.D., and G. Anne Bogat, Ph.D., both of the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University, together with Alissa C. Huth-Bocks, Ph.D., Department of Psychology at Eastern Michigan State University, conducted a study to determine what effect domestic violence... Read More
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July 27th, 2011 |
Last month we discussed the role affect regulation plays in recovery from trauma. Affect is driven by thoughts and in turn, thoughts are informed by meanings. It is useful to note at the outset many of these meanings lie outside conscious mind’s power and scope. Deeper mind, with its vast storehouse of implicit memories and ability to condense meanings and code them in various ways, makes meaning much more than just a conscious construct or a unidimensional belief. Trauma... Read More
May 27th, 2011 |
Hey Dads. Feeling irritable and distant? Blowing a fuse for no good reason? A little nervous about your disconnection from the kids? Well here's a unique idea not always presented to fathers: You are Good Enough the way you are.
Below are some explanations and affirmations for our natural skills as men as we bond with our kids. These skills apply equally well to empowered women or single sex partners wishing to manifest more testosterone in their parenthood. It can be a lonely world ruling justly as King over one's castle (and sharing power with the Queen) but when channeled well, our King... Read More
May 25th, 2011 |
Life in the trenches brings with it fears, burdens, and losses. Times of stress and embattlement may inflict wounds to be long left either ignored or haphazardly bandaged. Sometimes in adolescence the severing of openness with parents is a lonely precursor to endless turf battles in a fight for identity. Left unresolved, the gaping irresolution of this singularly critical bond has the power to play itself out in relationships with lovers and coworkers and children throughout the course of life.
Sometimes when new babies bring with them sleepless nights and endless bondage to the inevitable routine... Read More
