The Challenge of Attachment for Caregiving describes a theoretical model for the development of caregiving that complements and also extends attachment theory. The model highlights the conditions under which adult caregivers can remain in a state of arrested development, impairing their own ability to give care and resulting in attachment problems.
The Challenge of Attachment for Caregiving describes a theoretical model for the development of caregiving that complements and also extends attachment theory. The model highlights the conditions under which adult caregivers can remain in a state of arrested development, impairing their own ability to give care and resulting in attachme
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Part I The conceptual base for a theory of companionable caregiving |
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1 A Caregiving Focus To An Extension Of Attachment Theory |
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2 Caregiving From An Evolutionary Perspective |
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3 Human Non-Verbal And Symbolic Communication And Two Alternative Patterns Of Relating |
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4 Bowlby's Model For Instinctive Behaviour -- Based On The Concept Of Goal-Corrected Behavioural Systems |
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5 Extensions To Bowlby's Model Of Instinctive Behaviour |
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6 The Emergence Of High-Order Systems Of The Self |
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Part II The construction of a theory of companionable caregiving |
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7 Categorising The Functions Of Instinctive Systems Of The Self With Comments On Their Development |
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8 From Behavioural Systems To Adult Relationships By Way Of Internal Working Models |
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9 How Values Are Acquired And Assigned To Oneself, People And Other Entities |
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10 Implicit Concepts Of Caregiving In The Development Of The Concept Of Self/Ego Ideals |
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11 Values And Ideals In Promoting Maturation And Well-Being |
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Part III Principles of therapy guided by an attachment-based theory of caregiving |
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12 Theories Used By Therapists That Implicitly Or Explicitly Incorporate The Caregiving Aspects Of Attachment |
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135 | (12) |
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147 | (17) |
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14 The Therapeutic Alliance And The Creation Of A Safe Base For Personal Development |
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164 | (19) |
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15 Separation Anxiety, Impingement And The Therapeutic Frame |
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183 | (13) |
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A The Strange Situation Test |
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B The adult attachment interview |
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C An outline of the emergence of the study of attachment style in adults |
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D Questionnaire about a prospective client for assessors to complete after assessment |
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| Bibliography |
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| Author index |
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| Subject index |
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Dorothy Heard is a pyschoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice and was formerly a Consultant in John Bowlby's Department at the Tavistock Clinic, London. Brian Lake was formerly Consultant in Psychotherapy at St James's University Hospital, Leeds
