Challenge of Attachment for Caregiving (Heftet (myke permer))

In this classic work, now reissued, extensions of the Bowlby/Ainsworth attachment theory are described. It also discusses how human beings aspire to reach ideals or, not infrequently, defensive idealizations. "The Challenge of Attachment for Caregiving" proposes a model for the development of caregiving, and shows its relation to therapeutic practice while complementing and extending attachment theory. The authors place the instinctive systems for caregiving and careseeking within a theory relating them to other systems of the self, and present the material in a form that enables the therapist to formulate hyptheses about a client's predicament and their way of relating to the therapist and then explore and test these hypotheses in the course of therapy."The Challenge of Attachment" is now being used as a necessary textbook to introduce trainees to McCluskey 's model of how to intervene in a psychotherapeutic manner with individuals, couples and groups.