The challenge of attachment for caregiving

Heard, Dorothy 1916- (author.). Lake, Brian, 1922-2007 (author.).

Summary: 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 attachment problems for those who seek care from them. It shows how insecure attachment in childhood and adolescence impedes the development of caregiving and how, in times of crisis, even securely attached individuals need appropriate support in order to sustain their capacity to give effective care. Drawing on many years experience as clinicians and researchers, Dorothy Heard and Brian Lake explore in depth an aspect of human development which has profound implications for our future survival. Presenting its own challenge to both theory and practice, this book offers students and practitioners a new perspective on attachment.

Record details

ISBN: 9780367327576 (hardcover)
ISBN: 0367327570
Physical Description: print
vi, 229 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; Routledge, [2019]
Copyright: ©1997

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I conceptual base for a theory of companionable caregiving -- 1. Caregiving Focus To An Extension Of Attachment Theory -- 2. Caregiving From An Evolutionary Perspective -- 3. Human Non-Verbal And Symbolic Communication And Two Alternative Patterns Of Relating -- 4. Bowlby's Model For Instinctive Behaviour -- Based On The Concept Of Goal-Corrected Behavioural Systems -- 5. Extensions To Bowlby's Model Of Instinctive Behaviour -- 6. Emergence Of High-Order Systems Of The Self -- pt. II construction of a theory of companionable caregiving -- 7. Categorising The Functions Of Instinctive Systems Of The Self With Comments On Their Development -- 8. From Behavioural Systems To Adult Relationships By Way Of Internal Working Models -- 9. How Values Are Acquired And Assigned To Oneself, People And Other Entities -- 10. Implicit Concepts Of Caregiving In The Development Of The Concept Of Self/Ego Ideals -- 11. Values And Ideals In Promoting Maturation And Well-Being -- pt. III Principles of therapy guided by an attachment-based theory of caregiving -- 12. Theories Used By Therapists That Implicitly Or Explicitly Incorporate The Caregiving Aspects Of Attachment -- 13. Assessment -- 14. Therapeutic Alliance And The Creation Of A Safe Base For Personal Development -- 15. Separation Anxiety, Impingement And The Therapeutic Frame -- Appendices -- A. Strange Situation Test -- B. adult attachment interview -- C. outline of the emergence of the study of attachment style in adults -- D. Questionnaire about a prospective client for assessors to complete after assessment.