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9781433813023 Academic Inspection Copy

Attachment-Based Psychotherapy

Helping Patients Develop Adaptive Capacities
  • ISBN-13: 9781433813023
  • Publisher: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
    Imprint: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
  • By Peter C. Costello
  • Price: AUD $159.00
  • Stock: 6 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 29/07/2013
  • Format: Hardback (100.00mm X 100.00mm) 264 pages Weight: 680g
  • Categories: Psychotherapy [MMJT]
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Our early attachment experiences with our primary caregiver influence the adult that we become. These experiences forge our patterns of communication, emotional experience, intimate relationships, and way of living in the world. If our early attachments are secure, we learn to access and communicate adaptive feelings, thoughts, and behaviours. In contrast, if our early attachment experiences are insecure, we may struggle with dysregulated, maladaptive emotions and have difficulties in our intimate relationships - leading to anxiety, depression, and excessive or misdirected anger. This book presents an attachment-based approach to therapy that addresses the limiting and detrimental effects of negative early attachment experiences. Attachment-based psychotherapy has two major components: establishing a security-engendering therapeutic relationship and helping the patient to communicate more openly and thus to access more adaptive feelings, thoughts, and behaviours. Psychotherapists of various theoretical orientations will appreciate this book's richly detailed conceptualisation of common human problems, as well as clear treatment approach for addressing these problems.
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