Attachment Therapy with Adolescents and Adults: Theory and Practice Post Bowlby

di Dorothy Heard (Autore)

Brian Lake (Autore)

Una McCluskey (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019

This is a revised edition of an important title originally published in 2009. It is written primarily for psychotherapists and other practitioners and describes a new and effective form of dynamic therapy designed for working with adults and with adolescents. The theory, on which the new form of therapy is based, is centred in a paradigm that extends and crucially alters the paradigm for developmental psychology opened by the Bowlby/Ainsworth attachment theory. It describes a pre-programmed process, the dynamics sustaining attachment and interest sharing, which is activated as soon as people perceive that they are in danger. This process is made up of seven pre-programmed systems which interact with one another as an integrated whole. They include Bowlby's two complementary goal-corrected behavioural systems: attachment (also referred to as careseeking) and caregiving. Whenever the process is able to function effectively, it enables people to adapt more constructively and co-operatively to changing circumstances.

• Autore: Dorothy Heard, Brian Lake, Una McCluskey
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 268 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 653 gr.
• EAN: 9780367101060

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