Childhood Attachment and Adult Mental Health

When
13 Feb 2015
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location
Room 109-111 of Medical Education and Training Building on the UNTHSC Campus. This is building 13 on the campus map. Parking Lot 19 and 14.

Registration

FWAPA Members, Associate Members, and Student Members
Non-FWAPA members – $60.00
Student Member

Registration is closed

Childhood Attachment and Adult Mental Health

Thomas Burdenski, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Psychology & Counseling
Tarleton State University Southwest Metroplex

FWAPA is delighted to have Dr. Burdenski present a workshop on how childhood attachment styles affect future adult mental health. He plans to achieve the following objectives:

Clarify between the secure, anxious, avoidant, and mixed childhood attachment styles identified by Bowlby and Ainsworth.
Explain how the avoidant childhood attachment style tends to morph into avoidance and how the anxious style tends to morph into a pursuing style in adulthood.
Define the withdrawing and pursuing cycle in which highly distressed couples typically engage.
Distinguish between primary and secondary emotional responses and how engaging in each tends to either escalate or de-escalate emotional distress in intimate relationships.

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