Lack of Secure Base: Analysis of Two Adolescent Suicide Cases based on Attachment Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 427-440
Author(s):  
Buayixiamu Abudurexiti ◽  
Li Tonggui
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Adolescent Suicide ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Base Analysis

Developmental Perspectives on Parenting

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-49
Author(s):  
Rochelle F. Hentges ◽  
Meredith J. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Reproductive Strategies ◽  
Life History Theory ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Parenting Influences

This chapter discusses two leading middle-level theories within evolutionary psychology, which attempt to explain both how and why parenting influences child development across the life span. First, it presents an overview of one of the most influential evolutionary theories in developmental psychology: John Bowlby’s attachment theory. Attachment theory revolutionized the way people understand the nature of the parent–child bond, framing the parent as not just a provider of physical needs but also as a secure base for emotional and psychological needs. These early-life bonds between the caregiver and infant are further proposed to form the basis for relationship attachments across the life span. Next, the chapter addresses how competing strategies toward resource allocation can influence individual differences in parental investment and sensitivity. According to life history theory, differences in the caregiving environment, in turn, promote the formation of distinct reproductive strategies, resulting in behavioral, social, and physiological differences across child development.

Attachment Theory: A Biological Basis for Psychotherapy?

1993 ◽  
Vol 163 (4) ◽  
pp. 430-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Insecure Attachment ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Biological Basis ◽  
John Bowlby ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shared Narrative ◽  
Biological Foundation

John Bowlby bemoaned the separation between the biological and psychological approaches in psychiatry, and hoped that attachment theory, which brings together psychoanalysis and the science of ethology, would help bridge the rift between them. Recent findings in developmental psychology have delineated features of parent–infant interaction, especially responsiveness, attunement, and modulation of affect, which lead to either secure or insecure attachment. Similar principles can be applied to the relationship between psychotherapist and patient - the provision of a secure base, the emergence of a shared narrative (‘autobiographical competence’), the processing of affect, coping with loss - these are common to most effective psychotherapies and provide the basis for a new interpersonal paradigm within psychotherapy. Attachment theory suggests they rest on a sound ethological and hence biological foundation.

Attachment Theory and Concern for Others'Welfare: Evidence That Activation of the Sense of Secure Base Promotes Endorsement of Self-Transcendence Values

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Mikulincer ◽  
Omri Gillath ◽  
Yael Sapir-Lavid ◽  
Erez Yaakobi ◽  
Keren Arias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Self Transcendence

Attachment as Moderator Variable in Counseling and Psychotherapy with Adults

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheri L. Marmarosh ◽  
Michelle Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Group Therapy ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Automatic Thoughts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Individual Counseling ◽  
Moderator Variable ◽  
Therapeutic Modalities

This chapter reviews John Bowlby’s attachment theory and examines how client attachments influence individual, couple, and group therapy treatments. Bowlby (1988) specifically emphasized how the individual counseling relationship provides a new secure attachment experience for clients that offers them the opportunity to internalize more positive working models of themselves and others. Similarly, in couple counseling, therapy challenges automatic negative expectations that hinder intimacy, and it facilitates each partner in becoming a secure base for the other. Group therapy, like the other modalities, encourages members to examine their internal representations of themselves and others in the group, and the group becomes a secure base from which to examine automatic thoughts and emotions that often hinder intimacy. The chapter includes an extensive review of the empirical work applying attachment theory to these three therapeutic modalities, and it concludes by addressing future research and clinical implications.

scholarly journals Investigating the Interpersonal Dynamics Between Coaches and Athletes Based on Fundamental Principles of Attachment

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Davis ◽  
Sophia Jowett
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Interpersonal Dynamics ◽  
Attachment Figure ◽  
As Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Associated Data

Grounded in Bowlby’s (1969/1982, 1988) attachment theory, this study aimed to explore (a) the pervasiveness of the three main functions of attachment within the context of the coach-athlete relationship, (b) the associations of athletes’ attachment styles with such important variables as satisfaction with the relationship and satisfaction with the sport, and (c) the process by which athletes’ attachment styles and satisfaction with sport are associated. Data were collected through self-report measures of attachment functions and styles as well as relationship satisfaction and sport satisfaction from 309 student athletes (males = 150, females = 159) whose age ranged from 18 to 28 years (Mage = 19.9, SD = 1.58 years). Athletes’ mean scores indicated that the coach was viewed as an attachment figure fulfilling all three functions of secure base, safe haven, and proximity maintenance. Bivariate correlations indicated that athletes’ avoidant and anxious styles of attachment with the coach were negatively correlated with both relationship satisfaction and sport satisfaction. Mediational regression analysis revealed that athletes’ satisfaction with the coach-athlete relationship may be a process that links athletes’ attachment styles with levels of satisfaction with sport. The findings from this study highlight the potential theoretical and practical utility of attachment theory in studying relationships within the sport context.

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