Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair

Attachment Disturbances in Adults is an essential resource for: understanding attachment, how it develops, and the most clinically relevant discoveries from attachment research, and using this understanding to inform systematic, in-depth, and clinically sound treatment of attachment disturbances in adults.

It offers an innovative model and sets new ways for treating adult patients with dismissing, anxiously preoccupied, or disorganized attachment. In extreme detail, it integrated historical and leading-edge attachment research into practical, effective treatment protocols for each type of insecure attachment. Case transcripts and many sample therapist phrasings illustrate how to apply methods in practice. Part I: "Foundational Concepts," features a comprehensive overview of the field of attachment, including its history, seminal ideas, and existing knowledge about the development of attachment bonds and behaviors. 

Part II, Assesment," addresses the assessment of attachment disturbances. It includes an overview of attachment assessment for the clinician and a trove of practical recommendations for assessing patients' attachment behavior and status both outside of and within the therapeutic relationship.