Attachment Styles

Secure Attachment

100

Cause of Secure Attachment

What is sensitive, consistent, and responsive caregiving?

200

Secure attachment style 

What is a emotional bond characterized by trust, high self-esteem, and comfort with intimacy, developed from consistent, responsive caregiving?

300

Characteristics of Secure attachment 

What is Positive Self-Worth & Emotional Stability,Healthy Communication & Conflict Resolution, Comfortable Intimacy & Independence, Trust and Reliability, and Strong Emotional Regulation?

400

Development and nurturement of Secure attachment styles

What is Building consistent trust, fostering emotional regulation and practicing vulnerability?

500

Impact on Adult Relationships 

What is Trust and stability,Effective Communication, Constructive Conflict Resolution,Comfort with Intimacy, Healthy Independence,Emotional Regulation?

Disorganized Attachment

100

Treatment options for Disorganized Attachments 

What is Therapy?

200

Long term effects of disorganized attachments 

what are severe challenges with emotional regulation, profound trust issues, and volatile, "push pull" relationship patterns?

300

Disorganized Attachment develop in children 

what is a source of fear or overwhelming fear. 

400

Cause of Disorganized Attachment

what is early childhood trauma, abuse or severe neglect?

500

Diagnosis of Disorganized Attachment 

What is clinical observation of fearful, contradictory behaviors, such as freezing or approaching then distancing from a caregiver?

Avoidant Attachment

100

Characteristics of Avoidant Attachment

What is High need for independence, extreme self-reliance, and discomfort with emotional intimacy? 

200

Development of Avoidant Attachment

what is Consistently emotionally unavailable, distant, or dismissive of a child's needs? 

300

Treatment of Avoidant Attachment

What is Therapy, Self-Awareness, and Intentional Behavioral changes?

400

Effect on Emotional Intimacy 

what is creating a self-protective, emotional distance to maintain independence?  

500

Cause of Avoidant Attachment

What is Emotional Neglect, Encouraged Autonomy, Disapproval of Emotion, Parental Role Reversal, and Childhood Trauma?

Anxious Attachment

100

impact on relationships

what is creating relationships marked by a high need for closeness, frequent insecurity, and fear of abandonment?

200

anxious attachment healing 

What is building self-worth, developing self-soothing skills and establishing healthy boundaries to move toward a secure attachment style?

300

Cause of anxious attachment

What is Emotional Neglect, Inconsistent Parenting, Childhood Trauma, Overprotective Parenting, Caregiver Anxiety, and Abandonment?

400

Childhood Development

What is Inconsistent Caregiving, "Emotional Hunger", Failed Co-regulation, Unmet Emotional Needs, and Trauma or Separation? 

500

Coping mechanisms 

what is self-soothing techniques, building self-esteem, and setting healthy boundaries to reduce dependency on external validation?