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Attachment and Impact on Adult Relationships
A direct link to the counseling CEU course based on this podcast can be found at https://allceus.com/podcastCEUs
Objectives
~ Briefly define attachment theory
~ Learn about the impact of attachment
~ Identify triggers for attachment behaviors
~ Explore the relationship between ACEs and attachment issues
~ Learn about adult attachment theory
~ Examine how attachment impacts emotional regulation and vice versa
~ Identify ways to help people become more securely attached.
What is Attachment Theory?
~ Attachment behaviors, such as crying and searching, were adaptive responses to separation from with a primary attachment figure someone who provides support, protection, and care.
~ Erikson postulated the periods of trust vs. mistrust, and autonomy vs. shame and doubt during this same time period
~ Maintaining proximity to an attachment figure via attachment behaviors increases the chance for survival
~ From this initial relationship we learn
~ How scary or safe the world is.
~ What it is like to be loved.
What is Attachment Theory?
~ The attachment system essentially “asks” the following fundamental question: Is the attachment figure nearby, accessible, and attentive?
~ If the answer is “yes,” the person feels loved, secure, and confident, and, behaviorally, is likely to explore his or her environment, interact with others.
~ If the answer is “no,” the person experiences anxiety and, is likely to exhibit attachment behaviors ranging from simple visual searching to active following and vocal signaling on the other
~ These behaviors continue until either
~ The person is able to reestablish a desirable level of physical or psychological proximity to the attachment figure
~ Until the person “wears down.”
Impact of Attachment
~ How loved or unloved we feel as children deeply affects the formation of our self-esteem and self-acceptance. It shapes how we seek love and whether we feel part of life or more like an outsider.
~ As we individuate we often again seek approval.
Does it Stop After Infancy
~ Maybe yes, maybe no.
~ Consider the child that regularly did not get needs met.
~ Persisted with attachment seeking behaviors
~ Those behaviors were eventually rewarded (so they will happen again) or not, so the child stops seeking comfort from others.
~ How does this impact
~ Self-esteem?
~ Trust in others?
~ Future relationships?
Does it Stop After Infancy
~ Maybe yes, maybe no.
~ Consider the adult who got needs met as a child, but in adult relationships regularly does not get needs met.
~ What role do significant others play in the survival of the adult human?
~ Think about Erikson’s stage of intimacy vs. isolation
~ How does not getting needs met impact
~ Self-esteem?
~ Trust in others?
~ Future relationships?
Adult Attachment Theory
~ (1987) Hazan and Shaver noted that the relationship between infants and caregivers and the relationship between adult romantic partners share the following features:
~ both feel safe when the other is nearby and responsive
~ both engage in close, intimate, bodily contact
~ both feel insecure when the other is inaccessible
~ both share discoveries with one another
~ both play with one another's facial features and exhibit a mutual fascination and preoccupation with one another
~ both engage in “baby talk”
Adult Attachment Theory
~ If adult romantic relationships are attachment relationships, then:
~ We should observe the same kinds of individual differences in adult relationships that Ainsworth observed in infant-caregiver relationships.
~ The way adult relationships
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Attachment and Impact on Adult Relationships
A direct link to the counseling CEU course based on this podcast can be found at https://allceus.com/podcastCEUs
Objectives
~ Briefly define attachment theory
~ Learn about the impact of attachment
~ Identify triggers for attachment behaviors
~ Explore the relationship between ACEs and attachment issues
~ Learn about adult attachment theory
~ Examine how attachment impacts emotional regulation and vice versa
~ Identify ways to help people become more securely attached.
What is Attachment Theory?
~ Attachment behaviors, such as crying and searching, were adaptive responses to separation from with a primary attachment figure someone who provides support, protection, and care.
~ Erikson postulated the periods of trust vs. mistrust, and autonomy vs. shame and doubt during this same time period
~ Maintaining proximity to an attachment figure via attachment behaviors increases the chance for survival
~ From this initial relationship we learn
~ How scary or safe the world is.
~ What it is like to be loved.
What is Attachment Theory?
~ The attachment system essentially “asks” the following fundamental question: Is the attachment figure nearby, accessible, and attentive?
~ If the answer is “yes,” the person feels loved, secure, and confident, and, behaviorally, is likely to explore his or her environment, interact with others.
~ If the answer is “no,” the person experiences anxiety and, is likely to exhibit attachment behaviors ranging from simple visual searching to active following and vocal signaling on the other
~ These behaviors continue until either
~ The person is able to reestablish a desirable level of physical or psychological proximity to the attachment figure
~ Until the person “wears down.”
Impact of Attachment
~ How loved or unloved we feel as children deeply affects the formation of our self-esteem and self-acceptance. It shapes how we seek love and whether we feel part of life or more like an outsider.
~ As we individuate we often again seek approval.
Does it Stop After Infancy
~ Maybe yes, maybe no.
~ Consider the child that regularly did not get needs met.
~ Persisted with attachment seeking behaviors
~ Those behaviors were eventually rewarded (so they will happen again) or not, so the child stops seeking comfort from others.
~ How does this impact
~ Self-esteem?
~ Trust in others?
~ Future relationships?
Does it Stop After Infancy
~ Maybe yes, maybe no.
~ Consider the adult who got needs met as a child, but in adult relationships regularly does not get needs met.
~ What role do significant others play in the survival of the adult human?
~ Think about Erikson’s stage of intimacy vs. isolation
~ How does not getting needs met impact
~ Self-esteem?
~ Trust in others?
~ Future relationships?
Adult Attachment Theory
~ (1987) Hazan and Shaver noted that the relationship between infants and caregivers and the relationship between adult romantic partners share the following features:
~ both feel safe when the other is nearby and responsive
~ both engage in close, intimate, bodily contact
~ both feel insecure when the other is inaccessible
~ both share discoveries with one another
~ both play with one another's facial features and exhibit a mutual fascination and preoccupation with one another
~ both engage in “baby talk”
Adult Attachment Theory
~ If adult romantic relationships are attachment relationships, then:
~ We should observe the same kinds of individual differences in adult relationships that Ainsworth observed in infant-caregiver relationships.
~ The way adult relationships
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