Attachment Theory: The Reciprocal Relationship between Family Communication and Attachment Patterns

2012 ◽  
pp. 165-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
April R. Trees
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Family Communication ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Attachment Patterns

The Strange Situation of the Ethological Theory of Attachment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marga Vicedo
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Attachment Patterns ◽  
History Of

This chapter examines the history of some challenges to John Bowlby’s and Mary Ainsworth’s ethological attachment theory (EAT). Bowlby and Ainsworth argued that the mother-infant relationship is a natural dyad designed by evolution in which the instinctual responses of one party activate instinctual responses in the other, and that secure attachment is an adaptation. This chapter focuses on EAT’s two fundamental tenets: the universality of attachment patterns and the biological foundations of the attachment system. It shows that several scholars have challenged those tenets over the years and argues that attachment researchers have not addressed those challenges successfully.

Boarding school syndrome: reconsidered in social context and through the lens of attachment theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-278
Author(s):  
Simon Partridge
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Clinical Diagnosis ◽  
Complex Trauma ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
Attachment Patterns ◽  
Avoidant Attachment

I argue the time has come to expand the now recognised clinical diagnosis of boarding school syndrome to take account of its invisible precursors in the avoidant attachment patterns of British upper-class culture. This elite, comprising less than 1% of the population, has sustained fee-paying boarding “public” schools, and is sustained by them, in a remarkably effective nexus of power and influence. I propose to call this avoidant culture with its severe affective limits and entitled assumptions, “British upper-class complex trauma condition”. Until we can recognise it and understand it as a form of group trauma, we will not be able to deal with its grave incapacity when it comes to empathy with the lives of others. Like Bowlby1, I advocate the abolition of early boarding as a key part of transforming the condition’s psychosocial limitations, which profoundly impact us all.

Psychotherapy with People who have Disorganised Attachment Patterns in a Psychodynamic and Attachment Theory Informed Setting

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Nelleke J. Nicolai
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Dissociative Disorder ◽  
Attachment Patterns ◽  
Interactive Regulation

The story of my work with a woman who has a dissociative disorder is presented from an attachment perspective. Someone with a disorganised/disoriented attachment status requires a different approach. Within an attachment and psychoanalytic psychotherapy approach I describe how by centring on issues of selfregulation (dissociative withdrawal) and interactive regulation, when the patient was in a highly helpless and frightened state, an enactment emerged that mirrored the interactions she had had with her parents. Within our growing mutual understanding of the mosaic of the transference–countertransference matrix a pattern was discernible: each time the therapist felt pressured to act she was caught in a repetition of earlier frightening and perverse relationships. Thinking and reflecting on these enactments enabled the patient to differentiate between past and present and helped her to verbalise her unmentalized feelings.

Attachment Research, Developmental Implications, and Clinical Interventions with Children, Adults, and Couples

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoshana Ringel
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Clinical Interventions ◽  
Attachment Patterns ◽  
Infant Research ◽  
John Bowlby ◽  
Attachment Research ◽  
Mary Ainsworth

This review summarizes contributions to attachment theory and research by John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, Mary Main, and many other researchers. It addresses contributions from the Adult Attachment Interview to the understanding of loss and trauma as well as the intergenerational transmission of attachment patterns from parent to child. The review describes current findings from infant research, and the implications of attachment theory to clinical interventions with children, families, adults, and couples.

scholarly journals Contributions of attachment theory and research: A framework for future research, translation, and policy

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (4pt2) ◽  
pp. 1415-1434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jude Cassidy ◽  
Jason D. Jones ◽  
Phillip R. Shaver
Keyword(s):  
School Readiness ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Child Psychopathology ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Translation ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Infant Attachment ◽  
Attachment Patterns ◽  
Attachment Research

AbstractAttachment theory has been generating creative and impactful research for almost half a century. In this article we focus on the documented antecedents and consequences of individual differences in infant attachment patterns, suggesting topics for further theoretical clarification, research, clinical interventions, and policy applications. We pay particular attention to the concept of cognitive “working models” and to neural and physiological mechanisms through which early attachment experiences contribute to later functioning. We consider adult caregiving behavior that predicts infant attachment patterns, and the still-mysterious “transmission gap” between parental Adult Attachment Interview classifications and infant Strange Situation classifications. We also review connections between attachment and (a) child psychopathology; (b) neurobiology; (c) health and immune function; (d) empathy, compassion, and altruism; (e) school readiness; and (f) culture. We conclude with clinical–translational and public policy applications of attachment research that could reduce the occurrence and maintenance of insecure attachment during infancy and beyond. Our goal is to inspire researchers to continue advancing the field by finding new ways to tackle long-standing questions and by generating and testing novel hypotheses.

Attachment organization in maltreated preschoolers

1991 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dante Cicchetti ◽  
Douglas Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Attachment Patterns ◽  
Maltreated Children ◽  
Attachment Relationships ◽  
Longitudinal Investigation ◽  
New Information ◽  
Socioeconomic Strata

AbstractAttachment theory predicts that maltreated children will form insecure patterns of attachment to their caregivers and that attachment relationships are open to change with development. In this cross-sectional/longitudinal investigation, we examined the attachment patterns of 125 maltreated and nonmaltreated preschoolers from the low socioeconomic strata (SES). Maltreated and demographically matched nonmaltreated comparison children were assessed in the Strange Situation at 30, 36, and 48 months of age, along with a subsample of children who were observed longitudinally across a 6- to 18-month period. Attachment relations were classified using a newly developed system for assessing attachment in the preschool years by Cassidy and Marvin (1991). Results revealed that, at each age, maltreated children were significantly more likely to evidence insecure patterns of attachment to their caregivers. The specific types of insecurity demonstrated by children varied with age. Longitudinally, the high percentage of nonmaltreated children who were classified as securely attached were likely to remain securely attached at subsequent assessments. In contrast, the small number of maltreated children who evidenced secure attachments were unlikely to be classified as secure at later assessments. These data provide new information on the patterns of attachment maltreated children exhibit in the preschool years.

scholarly journals Pola Komunikasi Keluarga Antara Menantu dan Mertua yang Tinggal dalam Satu Rumah

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-111
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Saro ◽  
M. Abdul Ghofur ◽  
Amanah Rakhim Syahida
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Family Communication ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Family Communication Patterns ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The study used qualitative research methods. The research is intended to know and understand in more detail related to the phenomenon of what is experienced by the subject to be investigated, through various data collection techniques conducted by researchers to obtain data on "Family Communication Patterns between Daughter-in-law and In-laws who live in one house in Bendrong Village Jabung District”. The problem is analyzed using the Rogers and Kincaid paradigms. The research method used was descriptive qualitative and the sampling technique used was puposive sampling by interviewing 6 informants in Bendrong village. Data collection taken using interview guides, observations and documentation. While data analysis is collecting data, reducing data, presenting data and drawing and conclusions. The results of the study revealed that where the pattern of communication between in-laws and in-laws often exchanges information, as shown in the chart above, where in-laws are usually the speakers or can be referred to as communicators, while the sons-in-law as recipients of messages or communicants, but usually often exchange positions within the period specific time and situation. Messages or information conveyed both by in-laws and in-laws are usually spoken directly or face to face or indirectly such as through social media mobile phones. In this case there is a reciprocal relationship between the two. Thus, the relationship between the daughter-in-law and the mother-in-law who tends to conflict will get worse if the two of them live together, because the high intensity of confusion results in a higher chance of friction.

Psychiatric staff as attachment figures

1998 ◽  
Vol 172 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwen Adshead
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Psychological Development ◽  
Therapeutic Relationships ◽  
Attachment Patterns ◽  
Attachment Relationships ◽  
Anxiety States ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
Clinical Strategies ◽  
Psychiatric Staff

BackgroundAttachment theory argues that psychological development and functioning are affected by our earliest attachments to care-givers. Failed or pathological attachment in childhood may give rise to repetition of maladaptive attachment patterns in adulthood.MethodAnalysis of therapeutic relationships in the light of attachment theory.ResultsRelationships between patients and both psychiatric care-givers and institutions may resemble attachment relationships.ConclusionAn attachment perspective may be useful for understanding common behavioural disturbances in general psychiatric settings, and support the use of clinical strategies which focus on containment of arousal and the management of anxiety states.

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