To Be Met as a Person: The Dynamics of Attachment in Professional Encounters

ISBN-13: 9781855753266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str.

Una McCluskey

Opis

-The aim of this book is to help us make sense of the feelings we have when we are successful and not successful in providing help for other people when they are in what one would describe as a -state-. It also addresses our own or others' experiences of feeling frustrated and defeated by attempts to achieve a compassionate and intelligent response when we are frightened and anxious.- -- From the Introduction

This volume looks closely at attachment theory and how it relates to adults when they engage in careseeking-caregiving relationships. The key concept in the book is goal-corrected empathic attunement (GCEA) that has been developed within the context of psychotherapy. A series of empirical studies, designed to identify the elements and processes involved in GCEA that explore the role of empathic attunement in effective care-giving, are detailed.
This is a thought-provoking read that sets out a framework for thinking about the way we interact with one another, and understanding and responding positively to these interactions.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Preface -- The dynamics of careseeking and caregiving -- Research on the process of interaction in adult psychotherapy -- Infant/caregiver interactions: the process of affect identification, communication, and regulation -- Patterns of careseeking/caregiving relationships: research into attachment behaviour in infants and young children -- Presenting the concept of goal-corrected empathic attunement: effective caregiving within psychotherapy -- First experiment: the identification of affect attunement in adult psychotherapy -- Second experiment: is empathic attunement interactive? -- Third experiment: an experiment designed to test whether secure attachment style correlates with empathic attunement and whether empathic attunement can be improved with training -- The process of obtaining a reliable measure for goal-corrected empathic attunement -- Results of the Third Experiment -- Patterns of functional and dysfunctional careseeking-caregiving partnerships -- Interactions between therapists and patients and their roots in infancy -- Role play scenarios for day one -- Measure of student attunement to be completed by the actor after each interview -- Measure of student attunement to be completed by the actor after each interview -- Role play scenarios for day two

O autorze

McCluskey, Una