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Avoidant Attachment: Understanding Insecure Avoidant Attachment

…ified as representing approximately 30% of the general population. What is Avoidant Attachment? Parents of children with an avoidant attachment tend to be emotionally unavailable or unresponsive to them a good deal of the time. They disregard or ignore their children’s needs, and can be especially rejecting when their child is hurt or sick. These parents also discourage crying and encourage premature independence in their children. In response, th…

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Do You or Your Partner Have an Avoidant Attachment Pattern?

…ting their parent’s deficits into the fabric of their identity. Dismissive Avoidant Attachment in Adults Having grown up experiencing an avoidant attachment pattern, it is more likely for a person to go on to form a dismissive attachment pattern in their relationships with their partner and/or their child. In a romantic relationship, a person with a dismissive avoidant attachment pattern may come off more aloof or, as the name suggests, dismissive…

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Commitment Issues: Why Some People Have Them and Others Don’t

…dy that revealed negative expectations about relationships in the minds of avoidant people: “Avoidant people enter new relationships with detailed scripts for commitment aversion and expectations of relationship failure…” (2016). Avoidant people find it more difficult to fall in love and may reject the “myth” of romantic love altogether. Studies show that avoidant attachment in children is often the result of emotionally unavailable or insensitive…

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Understanding Dismissive-Avoidant Attachment 

…eness 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 cohere…

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Understanding Fearful-Avoidant Attachment 

…in childhood affects people throughout their lives and can lead to Fearful-Avoidant patterns in adulthood Discuss how a patient with Fearful-Avoidant attachment can develop an earned secure attachment in adulthood Describe how to help a person with Fearful-Avoidant attachment create a coherent narrative to form more inner security Order Now Ordering Information Once payment is received, you will be emailed a full video recording of this webinar al…

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Why Do We Keep Ending Up in the Same Kinds of Relationships? The Answer Lies in Our Attachment Styles

…ur primary styles of attachment in adult relationships: secure, dismissive avoidant, anxious preoccupied, and fearful avoidant. Our adult attachment styles—that is, the insecure styles—can be indicators of the childhood defenses that are continuing to affect us in our close relationships. As you read this section, think about your romantic relationships and what your attachment style may be. Adults with a secure attachment style are more satisfied…

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How Your Attachment Style Impacts Your Relationship

…atens to leave them, they would respond by saying, “I don’t care.” Fearful Avoidant Attachment – A person with a fearful avoidant attachment lives in an ambivalent state of being afraid of being both too close to or too distant from others. They attempt to keep their feelings at bay but are unable to; they can’t just avoid their anxiety or run away from their feelings. Instead, they are overwhelmed by their reactions and often experience emotional…

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How Your Attachment Pattern Influences Your Life

…belief that they must shut down to protect themselves from others. Fearful Avoidant Attachment A person with a fearful-avoidant attachment usually lives in an ambivalent state in which they are both frightened of being both too close to or too distant from others. They may often be overcome with anxiety or emotion and feel triggered by their partner either coming toward them or pulling away. This erratic or unpredictable pattern is the result of h…

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Understanding Attachment: A Webinar Series

…that arises in relationships Order Now   Session 4: Understanding Fearful-Avoidant Attachment – CE Webinar This webinar will: Define Fearful-Avoidant Attachment and explain how this pattern develops Illustrate the impact this attachment pattern has on relationships Offer techniques to break free from negative cycles, develop more inner security, and achieve closer, more fulfilling relationships Teach tools to calm down in times of stress Order No…

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