Attachment Style
Low avoidance, low anxiety
What is a secure attachment style?
low control, high affection
What is permissive parenting?
confused, disempowered, and—left more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and identity diffusion by having his or her own experience and perceptions invalidated so profoundly
What is mystified?
these issues can be challenging to approach and enter because they routinely evoke such strong _____ reactions in many new and experienced therapists
What is countertransference?
low avoidance, high anxiety
What is preoccupied attachment style?
high control, high affection
What is authoritative parenting?
The rule that hurtful interactions could not be talked about—named or made overt—as if the child could not say or even know what just transpired.
What is the unspoken family rule?
This is an example of ____
reenactments occur without being addressed and sorted through, old schemas and problematic relational expectations are confirmed by the interaction that is being played out in the therapeutic relationship
What is countertransference?
high avoidance, low anxiety expression
What is dismissive attachment style?
low control, low affection
What is disengaged parenting?
what children learned they had to do to maintain their parents’ approval
What are conditions of worth?
This is an example of ______
Actively coach and facilitate clients’ current attempts to establish new relationships with others that do not repeat the problematic relational patterns that have come before
What is one of a therapist's treatment goals?
high avoidance, high anxiety
What is a fearful attachment style?
high control, low affection
What is authoritarian parenting?
Instead of communicating that they disapprove of the child’s behavior, these parents respond with anger or rejection and communicate disapproval of the child’s basic self
help clients realistically assess whether or not caregivers have changed over the years and to what extent they are capable of responding better now than before
What is the therapist's aim?
This is an example of_____ attachment style:
Client: I really like her, but she says I get distant or something?
What is fearful attachment style?
This is an example of ____ parenting style
Parent: “I love you, and that’s why you are going to do what I ask."
What is authoritative?
aattempts to win attention or affection and gain more security often become ______ that clients continue to use with others throughout their lives
What is a pervasive coping style?
the far more productive approach is to _____ when the client has initiated something that directly connects to or seems somehow related to a childhood/familial experience
What is watching for points of entry?