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Attachment in the Room
A clinical compendium on adult attachment, with 10 client worksheets
Compendium + worksheets, 46 pages (36-page compendium and 10 worksheets), PDF and EPUB, instant download.
On Etsy it is listed as “Attachment Theory Therapist Guide + 10 Client Worksheets, Adult Attachment Styles, Couples Therapy Tool, Psychotherapy PDF EPUB”. After payment the file is in your Etsy purchases, and Etsy emails you the download link.
Attachment is written here as a set of strategies to recognize in the room rather than a set of labels to assign. The compendium follows it from the story a patient tells to the patterns of the session and to our own attachment, and then into the work itself, from building a secure base to ruptures, breaks, endings and couples. Ten worksheets, written for use within an ongoing therapeutic relationship, carry the same thinking to the client's side of the room.
Abstract
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This working compendium brings attachment theory back into the consulting room for clinicians who already know its basics. It treats attachment as a set of strategies, things a person does for good reasons in a particular kind of relationship, rather than as types a person is. Part I offers a compact map of adult attachment, from the Strange Situation to the adult mind. Part II addresses recognition: how attachment patterns sound in narrative, appear in the session and affect the therapist. Part III addresses the work itself, including building a secure base and working with deactivating, hyperactivating and disorganized patterns, ruptures and repair, breaks and endings, couples and online therapy. Part IV collects an observation grid, a formulation template and a guide to measures. Ten printable worksheets for clients and couples accompany the text, designed for use within an ongoing therapeutic relationship.
Who it's for
Individual and couples therapists who use attachment theory and want it to change what they notice in session, plus trainees under supervision.
Contents
- Part I, a map of adult attachment: why it still matters, from the Strange Situation to the adult mind, strategies rather than labels
- Part II, recognizing attachment in the room: the narrative, patterns in the session, the therapist's attachment
- Part III, working with attachment: the secure base, deactivating, hyperactivating and disorganized patterns, ruptures and repair, breaks and endings, couples, online therapy, three clinical vignettes
- Part IV, tools: measures and what they are for, a clinical observation grid, attachment-informed formulation
- Ten client worksheets, from "My closeness thermometer" and "Our cycle" for couples to "A repair conversation" and a secure moments log
Format and license
- Format
- PDF and EPUB, 46 pages
- Delivery
- Instant download from your Etsy account once payment clears
- License
- For one therapist's own clinical practice; worksheets may be printed for your clients
- Status
- Educational material for clinicians, not a validated instrument and not clinical advice
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