The Challenge of Attachment for Caregiving

by Dorothy Heard, Brian Lake

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367327576
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/02/2019
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

The conceptual base for a theory of companionable caregiving — A caregiving focus to an extension of attachment theory — Caregiving from an evolutionary perspective — Human non-verbal and symbolic communication and two alternative patterns of relating — Bowlby's model for instinctive behaviour - based on the concept of goal-corrected behavioural systems — Extensions to Bowlby's model of instinctive behaviour — The emergence of high-order systems of the self — The construction of a theory of companionable caregiving — Categorising the functions of instinctive systems of the self with comments on their development — From behavioural systems to adult relationships by way of internal working models — How values are acquired and assigned to oneself, people and other entities — Implicit concepts of caregiving in the development of the concept of self/ego ideals — Values and ideals in promoting maturation and well-being — Principles of therapy guided by an attachment-based theory of caregiving — Theories used by therapists that implicitly or explicitly incorporate the caregiving aspects of attachment — Assessment — The therapeutic alliance and the creation of a safe base for personal development — Separation anxiety, impingement and the therapeutic frame — The Strange Situation Test — The adult attachment interview — An outline of the emergence of the study of attachment style in adults — Questionnaire about a prospective client for assessors to complete after assessment: to be used in association with the assessment procedure described in Chapter 13