To Be Met as a Person: The Dynamics of Attachment in Professional Encounters

by Una McCluskey

Overview

This book presents a theory of interaction in adult life when the dynamics of careseeking and caregiving are elicited. It sets out a framework for thinking about the way adults interact with one another, particularly when they are anxious, under stress or frightened.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855753266
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/04/2005
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Una McCluskey is a senior lecturer in social work at the University of York. She has had a long-standing interest in relationship work and has written extensively on working with individuals, couples, families, and groups. She is a Member of the Scottish Institute of Human Relations and the Systems-Centered® Training and Research Institute in Philadelphia. She is a Registered Member of the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy (psychodynamic and systemic divisions) and is the first European licensed Systems-Centered® practitioner. She is a co-editor (with Carol-Ann Hooper) of The Psychodynamics of Abuse: The Cost of Fear.

Table of Contents

Foreword — Preface — The dynamics of careseeking and caregiving — Research on the process of interaction in adult psychotherapy — Infant/caregiver interactions: the process of affect identification, communication, and regulation — Patterns of careseeking/caregiving relationships: research into attachment behaviour in infants and young children — Presenting the concept of goal-corrected empathic attunement: effective caregiving within psychotherapy — First experiment: the identification of affect attunement in adult psychotherapy — Second experiment: is empathic attunement interactive? — Third experiment: an experiment designed to test whether secure attachment style correlates with empathic attunement and whether empathic attunement can be improved with training — The process of obtaining a reliable measure for goal-corrected empathic attunement — Results of the Third Experiment — Patterns of functional and dysfunctional careseeking-caregiving partnerships — Interactions between therapists and patients and their roots in infancy — Role play scenarios for day one — Measure of student attunement to be completed by the actor after each interview — Measure of student attunement to be completed by the actor after each interview — Role play scenarios for day two