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These findings suggest the importance of considering client-therapist attachment matching and the need to pay attention to the special challenges involved in treating avoidant clients in order to facilitate progress in psychotherapy.

The nature and expression of anger and guilt in sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors were studied by a quantitative and qualitative analysis of relationship narratives. Findings are discussed in relation to the reciprocal overprotectiveness between the surviving parents and their children in the context of intergenerational communication of trauma.

This study examined the interpersonal problems and central relationship patterns of Holocaust Survivors' Offspring (HSO) who were characterised by different patterns of parental communication of their parents' Holocaust trauma. Fifty-six adults born to mothers who were survivors of Nazi concentration camps and 54 adults born to parents who immigrated to Israel before 1939 with their own parents (non-HSO) were recruited randomly from an Israeli sample. While the groups did not differ in their current mental health, HSO who reported nonverbal communication with little information about their mother's trauma endorsed more interpersonal distress than HSO who experienced informative verbal communication and less af liation than either HSO who experienced informative verbal communication or non-HSO. They also differed in their central relationship patterns with their parents and spouses. The ndings are discussed in the context of the unique dynamics of growing up with the silent presence of the mother's trauma.

Examined in this study were age differences in autonomy and relatedness in adolescents' relationships with parents as well as the association between adolescents'relationships with mother and with father and with a same-gender friend. The Relationship with Father/Mother Questionnaire (RFMQ) and the Sharabany Intimacy Scale were administered to 205 Israeli adolescents (105 males and 100females)from two age groups: 9th grade (age X = 14.5) and 12th grade (age X = 175). Older adolescents reported more autonomy in their relationships with parents than did younger adolescents, but no age differences were found in closeness and warmth. On the basis of a cluster analysis of the RFMQ, it was found that adolescents who reported an Ideal profile of relationships with their parents and those reporting a Cold and Controlling profile of relationships with them were alike in having higher intimacy with their best fiend compared with other groups of adolescents.