Adult attachment patterns and individual psychotherapy: A review

Balancing clinical risk with countertransference management protects alliance

“…Considering that both CORE-OM risk and CFI dimensions had no significant effects on WAI-SR in the absence of each other, our results encourage a careful examination of therapists' statelike, session-specific processes that may that preserve the alliance under the appearance of no effects. CT dynamics of this type may help illuminate the inconsistent findings concerning the effect of therapists' attachment patterns on alliance (see Daniel, 2006). Furthermore, such dynamics may be involved in the findings regarding the interaction between clinical severity and therapists' factors (Bucci et al, 2015;Schauenburg et al, 2010).…”

Adults in Wilderness Treatment: A Unique Application of Attachment Theory and Research

“…Those labeled as cannot classify/disorganized demonstrate high levels of both dismissing and preoccupied strategies or appear globally incoherent (Daniel 2006;Main 1996). These individuals will often resort to ''strategies of desperation'' including ''dependent or childlike behavior... rages and aggression... or frozen withdrawal'' (Solomon and George 1999, p. 27).…”

“…Recent adult attachment literature has focused on clinical applicability (Daniel 2006;Eagle 2006;Shilkret 2005;Shorey and Snyder 2006). In A Secure Base, Bowlby (1988) wrote, ''In providing his patient with a secure base from which to explore and express his thoughts and feelings, the therapist's role is analogous to that of a mother who provides her child with a secure base from which to explore the world'' (p. 140).…”

“…In A Secure Base, Bowlby (1988) wrote, ''In providing his patient with a secure base from which to explore and express his thoughts and feelings, the therapist's role is analogous to that of a mother who provides her child with a secure base from which to explore the world'' (p. 140). One of the most fundamental contributions of attachment theory to clinical work within a wilderness treatment program is the framework it provides for understanding the developmental history and internal working models of clients (Daniel 2006). Whatever the goals of treatment, attachment-oriented therapists focus on altering clients' existing working models (Daniel 2006).…”

Attachment theory within clinical supervision: application of the conceptual to the empirical

“…In previous research these models have proved useful in conceptualizing a person's approach to adult relationships including romantic (Ainsworth, 1989;Fraley & Shaver, 2000), peer (Ainsworth, 1989), psychotherapeutic (Daniel, 2006), and supervisory (Pistole & Watkins, 1995). Secure people differ from the insecure (subsuming preoccupied, dismissive, and fearful) in that their IWMs are positive for both self and other.…”