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Attachment (Anxious Ambivalent (preoccupied with having a secure base and…
Attachment
Anxious Ambivalent
preoccupied with having a secure base and desire to enmesh relationships, have conflictual feelings and fear rejection
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Primary defenses: avoidance mechanism, such as projection, withdrawal, denial and repressions to cope with stress
Hypothesised: compulsive care-seeking and compulsive care-giving. The latter is thought to be the least adaptive. It involved more of a fear of abandonment and higher level of dependency, self criticism, and anxiety and lower levels of self-efficacy than compulsive care-giving
Avoidant Characteristics
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projection, intellectualisation, doing and undoing, reaction formation, and over compensation to cope with stress
Dismissive Avoidant
Other people are hostile, untrustworthy or dangerous
seek emotional and social distance and attempt to escape from close relationships, deny attachment needs, and pursue autonomy and control
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most likely to resist therapy, not most likely to resist change, need to refer on
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Secure Characteristics
others are available and sensitive, confident with intimacy and interdependence, relationships descirbe as happy, trusting and friendly,
have regulatory goals - constructive and flexible enabling acknowledgement of distress, engagement.
Fearful Avoidant
Fearful of intimacy, emotional highs and lows and jealousy in relationships
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Relatedness and self-definition are 2 processes synergistically interdependent in normal development
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Influences: self-esteem, affect regulation, information processing, relationships quality and conflict, psychopathology.
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