Understanding Anxious-Preoccupied Attachment

Individuals with Anxious-Preoccupied attachment tend to struggle with insecurity in dating and relationships.

1 CEUS are available with purchase.

SKU: 20371 Categories: Attachment Webinars, CE Webinars Tag: Webinars

Individuals with Anxious-Preoccupied attachment tend to struggle with insecurity in dating and relationships, because they have learned that you can’t rely on others to consistently meet your needs. They may find themselves feeling unconfident, fearful, clingy, unsure, or wanting reassurance from their partner. While they believe they want closeness, they often engage in actions that push their partner away.

This webinar will help people understand:

What is Anxious-Preoccupied 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 calm down and relieve anxiety that arises in relationships

Learning Objectives:

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

Lisa Firestone, Ph.D.
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.