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With contributions from leading clinicians and researchers, this book presents couple and family therapy models that use attachment theory as the basis for new clinical understandings. Chapters provide compelling insights on the nature of interactions between adult partners and between parents and children, and the role of attachment in distressed and satisfying relationships. The book describes a range of ways that attachment-oriented interventions can help resolve marital conflict and difficult family transitions.

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Susan M. Johnson, EdD, is Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute, Ottawa, Canada. Widely published, she is the main proponent of emotionally focused couple and family therapy, which she teaches extensively in North America and internationally. In 2005, she received the Distinguished Contribution to Family Systems Research Award from the American Family Therapy Academy. The website for Dr. Johnson's work is www.eft.ca.

Valerie E. Whiffen, PhD, Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, has published widely in the area of depression, particularly focusing on women's depression. In recent publications, she has explored an attachment theory-based understanding of depression that co-occurs with marital distress. Dr. Whiffen teaches graduate courses in adult psychopathology and interpersonal theory, and supervises the clinical work of practicum students and interns in the American Psychological Association-accredited clinical psychology program at the University of Ottawa. She is a registered clinical psychologist and maintains a private practice specializing in the treatment of depression and marital distress.

PART I RELEVANCE OF ATTACHMENT THEORY FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE

Introduction to Attachment: A Therapist's Guide to Primary Relationships and Their Renewal

3

(15)

Susan M. Johnson

Adult Attachment Theory, Psychodynamics, and Couple Relationships: An Overview

18

(25)

Dory A. Schachner

Phillip R. Shaver

Mario Mikulincer

The Essential Nature of Couple Relationships

43

(21)

Cindy Hazan

Stability and Change of Attachment Representations from Cradle to Grave

64

(21)

Elaine Scharfe

Alternate Pathways to Competence: Culture and Early Attachment Relationships

85

(18)

Vivian J. Carlson

Robin L. Harwood

PART II MODELS OF CLINICAL INTERVENTION

Attachment Theory: A Guide for Couple Therapy

103

(21)

Susan M. Johnson

Attachment Processes in Couple Therapy: Informing Behavioral Models

124

(20)

Joanne Davila

Caring for the Caregiver: An Attachment Approach to Assessment and Treatment of Child Problems

144

(21)

Roger Kobak

Toni Mandelbaum

Creating and Repairing Attachments in Biological, Foster, and Adoptive Families

165

(26)

Terry M. Levy

Michael Orlans

Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Depressed Adolescents: Repairing Attachment Failures

191

(24)

Guy S. Diamond

Richard S. Stern

PART III USING AN ATTACHMENT PERSPECTIVE IN INTERVENTIONS WITH PARTICULAR POPULATIONS

The First Couple: Using Watch, Wait, and Wonder to Change Troubled Infant--Mother Relationships

215

(19)

Nancy J. Cohen

Elisabeth Muir

Mirek Lojkasek

The Journey of Adolescence: Transitions in Self within the Context of Attachment Relationships

234

(24)

Marlene M. Moretti

Roy Holland

Implications of Adult Attachment for Preventing Adverse Marital Outcomes

258

(23)

Rebecca J. Cobb

Thomas N. Bradbury

Attachment in Later Life: Implications for Intervention with Older Adults

281

(19)

J. Michael Bradley

Gail Palmer

Using an Attachment-Based Intervention with Same-Sex Couples

300

(21)

Gordon J. Josephson

PART IV SPECIFIC ATTACHMENT INTERVENTIONS FOR PARTICULAR PROBLEMS

Looking Outward Together: Adult Attachment and Childbearing Depression

321

(21)

Valerie E. Whiffen

Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse History on Current Couple Relationships: An Attachment Perspective

342

(24)

Pamela C. Alexander

Attachment and the Experience of Chronic Pain: A Couples Perspective

366

(23)

Samuel F. Mikail

PART V CONCLUSION

What Attachment Theory Can Offer Marital and Family Therapists

389

(10)

Valerie E. Whiffen

Index

399

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Attachment Processes in Couple and Family Therapy

Attachment Processes in Couple and Family Therapy

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