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Attachment Based Treatments for Adolescents: The Secure Cycle as a Framework for Assessment, Treatment and Evaluation
Attachment & human development, v 17(2)
01 Jan 2015
PMID: 25744572
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Abstract
The emergence of ABTs for adolescents highlights the need to more clearly define and evaluate these treatments in the context of other attachment based treatments for young children and adults. We propose a general framework for defining and evaluating ABTs that describes the cyclical processes that are required to maintain a secure attachment bond. This secure cycle incorporates three components: 1) the child or adult’s IWM of the caregiver; 2) emotionally attuned communication; and 3) the caregiver’s IWM of the child or adult. We briefly review Bowlby, Ainsworth, and Main’s contributions to defining the components of the secure cycle and discuss how this framework can be adapted for understanding the process of change in ABTs. For clinicians working with adolescents, our model can be used to identify how deviations from the secure cycle (attachment injuries, empathic failures and mistuned communication) contribute to family distress and psychopathology. The secure cycle also provides a way of describing the ABT elements that have been used to revise IWMs or improve emotionally attuned communication. For researchers, our model provides a guide for conceptualizing and measuring change in attachment constructs and how change in one component of the interpersonal cycle should generalize to other components.
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- Title
- Attachment Based Treatments for Adolescents: The Secure Cycle as a Framework for Assessment, Treatment and Evaluation
- Creators
- Roger Kobak - University of DelawareKristyn Zajac - Medical University of South CarolinaJoanna Herres - Drexel UniversityE. Stephanie KrauthamerEwing - University of Delaware, Newark, DE Medical University of South Caroline, Charleston, SC Drexel University, Philadelphia PAEllen Stephanie Krauthamer Ewing - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Attachment & human development, v 17(2)
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Counseling and Family Therapy; Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000352311000007
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84926370953
- Other Identifier
- 991020099179504721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Developmental