Attachment Theory & Therapy | Your story counselling
Your Story Counseling offers individual, couples and family trauma and sex therapy counseling for a variety of needs.
Attachment therapy is a therapeutic model that helps people who are dealing with the effects of childhood trauma, abuse, or neglect. When it happens to someone in childhood, it can affect the way they interact socially and with themselves throughout their lives. Attachment Therapists help people overcome the negative effects of these traumas to be able to live a more fulfilling life.
Attachment Therapy is a type of psychotherapy that originated in the 1980s. It uses emotionally focused interaction to help individuals learn how to deal with feelings of attachment that typically occur with issues such as abandonment. Attachment Therapy therapists will use certain techniques to help their clients gain more confidence in their abilities and build stronger relationships.
The main premise of Attachment Therapy is that as infants we form a bond with our primary caregiver and this relationship serves as a template for all other relationships we have throughout life. If our parents are good caregivers, they help us form secure bonds that will serve us well in relationships throughout our lives. On the other hand, if our caregivers are neglectful or abusive, we are likely to develop insecure attachments that can cause problems later in life including depression and anxiety disorders.
A Brief History of Attachment Theory
Attachment theory was developed by John Bowlby and then further developed by Mary Ainsworth. The theory explains the nature of the emotional bonds between them
people and forms the basis for research into relationships between children and parents. This attachment style formed in infancy/childhood can have lifelong effects on how we connect and build relationships with others as adults.
According to this theory, attachment is an instinctive bond that develops during the first two years of life and becomes especially important during times of stress or threat.
Bowlby’s work began in the 1940s when he worked with children who had been separated from their parents during World War II. He realized that many of these children experienced psychological problems as a result of being separated from their parents, even though they were eventually reunited with them. This led him to investigate how early childhood experiences influence future development.
Bowlby developed his theory based on observations of infants and toddlers who were separated from their mothers for long periods of time during World War II. He observed that infants who did not form a strong emotional bond with their mothers would develop severe psychological problems when reunited with their mothers at the end of the war.
Bowlby’s work led to the development of attachment theory by Mary Ainsworth, who studied infant behavior in Uganda with her husband Robert Ainsworth. To test Bowlby’s theory, she developed a series of experiments based on his ideas, which she and other researchers working at the University of London Institute of Child Health (now part of Great Ormond Street Hospital) later revised and expanded. Four main types of attachment have been identified: secure, insecure-avoidant, insecure-ambivalent, and insecure-disorganized.
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