Attachment Styles
This attachment style is characterized by comfort with both intimacy and independence.
What is Secure Attachment?
The first stage in Kubler-Ross's model often involves disbelief.
What is Denial?
Research shows social rejection activates this organ in a way similar to physical pain.
What is the Brain?
This brain structure is responsible for detecting threats and triggering the fight-flight-freeze response.
What is the Amygdala?
Name the three parts of the brain commonly discussed in trauma treatment.
This attachment style often fears abandonment and seeks high levels of reassurance.
What is Anxious Attachment?
This stage may include frustration, resentment, or blame.
What is Anger?
This neurotransmitter associated with reward and pleasure can decrease following rejection.
What is Dopamine?
This part of the brain helps with decision-making and emotional regulation and can become less effective during trauma.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
What are the four communication styles?
This attachment style values independence to the point of avoiding emotional closeness.
What is Avoidant Attachment?
This stage often includes thoughts such as "If only..." or attempts to negotiate outcomes.
What is Bargaining?
This stress hormone often increases after experiences of social rejection.
What is Cortisol?
Trauma can impair the functioning of this brain structure responsible for memory processing.
What is the Hippocampus?
Which attachment style is generally associated with the healthiest relationship outcomes?
This attachment style often desires connection while simultaneously fearing it.
What is Disorganized Attachment?
This stage is characterized by sadness, withdrawal, and mourning.
What is Depression?
Studies show that rejection can activate the same neural pathways involved in this experience.
What is Physical Pain?
Fight, Flight, Freeze, and ______ are the four commonly recognized trauma survival responses.
What is Fawn?
A client repeatedly chooses emotionally unavailable partners, fears abandonment, experiences intense distress when relationships end, and struggles to trust others. Name the attachment style most likely involved and one therapeutic intervention that could help.
What is Anxious Attachment, and interventions such as CBT, attachment-focused therapy, emotional regulation skills, or corrective relational experiences?
The psychologist who developed Attachment Theory.
Who is John Bowlby?
True or False: People always experience the stages of grief in order.
What is False?
According to social psychology research, rejection threatens these four basic needs: belonging, self-esteem, control, and ______.
What is Meaningful Existence?
Trauma survivors often remain in a state of nervous system activation due to dysregulation of this system.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?