Understanding Dismissive-Avoidant Attachment

Name: Understanding Dismissive-Avoidant Attachment
SKU: 20373
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In this Webinar: Individuals that have Dismissive-Avoidant attachment have learned to keep their own needs below their level of awareness and to take care of themselves.

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SKU: 20373 Category: Attachment Webinars Tag: Webinars

Individuals that have Dismissive-Avoidant attachment have learned to keep their own needs below their level of awareness and to take care of themselves. In relationships, they maintain emotional distance and tend to experience their partners bids for connection as needy and childish. They feel like they are self-sufficient and don’t understand why their partner “needs” them.

Length: 60 minutes

This webinar will help people understand:

What is Dismissive-Avoidant Attachment?
How does this attachment pattern develop?
What impact does this attachment pattern have on relationships (i.e. who you choose and how you behave)?
Techniques to break free from negative cycles, develop more inner security, and achieve closer, more fulfilling relationships
Tools to enhance tolerance for emotional closeness

Learning Objectives:

List the common characteristics of a Dismissive-Avoidant attachment pattern
Demonstrate how an Avoidant attachment pattern in childhood affects people throughout their lives and can lead to Dismissive-Avoidant patterns in adulthood
Discuss how a patient with Dismissive-Avoidant attachment can develop an earned secure attachment in adulthood
Describe how to help a person with Dismissive-Avoidant attachment create a coherent narrative to form more inner security

Dr. Lisa Firestone is the Director of Research and Education at The Glendon Association. An accomplished and much requested lecturer, Dr. Firestone speaks at national and international conferences in the areas of couple relations, parenting, and suicide and violence prevention. Dr. Firestone has published numerous professional articles, and most recently was the co-author of Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships (APA Books, 2006), Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice (New Harbinger, 2002), Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion: The Wisdom of Psychotherapy (APA Books, 2003) and The Self Under Siege (Routledge, 2012). Follow Dr. Firestone on Twitter or Google.