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
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes