
To Be Met as a Person
The Dynamics of Attachment in Professional Encounters
Una McCluskey(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2019
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-367-32930-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents a theory of interaction in adult life when the dynamics of careseeking and caregiving are elicited. It sets out a framework for thinking about the way adults interact with one another, particularly when they are anxious, under stress or frightened.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
574 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-32930-3 (9780367329303)
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McCluskey, Una
Content
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