Objectives

  • Review Bowlby's theory of attachment
  • Explore the types of attachment
  • Learn about Hazan and Shaver's Adult Attachment Theory
  • Identify the impact of insecure attachment
  • Explore ways to help clients change their attachment style and feel more secure in relationships
  • Help clients increase awareness of their story including beliefs about and behavioral reactions to situations that trigger their fear of abandonment Learn about fear of abandonment
  • Explore the concept of schemas or core beliefs Examine common traps in thinking, reacting and relationships
  • Learn skills necessary to
    • Accept their past as part of their story
    • Acknowledge that their past does not have to continue to negatively impact them in the present