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Katherine L.
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The Client-Therapist Bonding
All therapies share a bond, an emotional connection, or a collaboration between the therapist and the client(patient).
Research suggests that effective therapies use empathy, warmth, positivism, hopefulness and emotional expressiveness, whereas the ineffective ones tend to have a strict approach.
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Claudia Florescu
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How Attachment Styles Affect Adult Relationships
How Attachment Styles Affect Adult Relationships
Whatever your specific relationship problems, it’s important to know that your brain remains capable of change throughout life.
By identifying your attachment style, you can learn to chall...
What Attachment Is
Attachment is the emotional connection you formed as an infant with your primary caregiver—probably your mother.
According to attachment theory, pioneered by British psychiatrist John Bowlby and American psychologist Mary Ainsworth, the quality of the bonding you experienced during this first relationship often determines how well you relate to other people and respond to intimacy throughout life.
Attachment Styles and How They Shape Adult Relationships
The infant brain is so profoundly influenced by the attachment bond. Understanding your attachment style can offer vital clues as to why you may be having problems in your adult relationships. There arefour main attachment styles:
- Secure attachment
- Ambivalent (or anxious-preoccupied) attachment
- Avoidant-dismissive attachment
- Disorganized attachment.
Rhett M.
@rhettm40
Why is it so hard to forgive an ex?
Rekindling Of An Old Flame
Breakups and subsequent renewals are quite common across all types of romantic relationships and even marriages.
Falling apart and then seeking to mend the old relationship seems to be dee...
The Protest Phase
When people experience breakups they go through the ‘protest’ phase initially, and the rejected lover becomes obsessed with winning back the person who has quit the relationship.
Rejection, paradoxically, makes the rejected person love the partner even more. This is called a ‘Frustration Attraction’, and can be categorized as an addiction.
Chemical Reactions
The rejected lover experiences high levels of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain, and are visibly stressed out. These chemical reactions trigger many to do crazy things to win their ex back. Such feelings are erased quickly if the lover starts dating a new partner.
Some people also feel increasingly passionate and loving after the breakup and are more likely to forgive their ex.
Claudia Florescu
@claudiaflorescu
The 5 Qualities That Tell You a Therapist Is Effective
How Can One Select a Good, Effective Therapist
The evidence shows that the primary determinants of effectiveness in psychotherapy are the human and relational elements.
In other words, a good, effective psychotherapist...
Debunking Some Myths About Good Therapists
- A good therapist attended an excellent university. Training is important, but it doesn't guarantee that a therapist is effective.
- A good therapist has a doctoral degree. Many therapists have a master's degree and yet they are highly effective.
- A good therapist has written numerous books. Just because someone is a prolific writer doesn't mean that she's an effective therapist.
- A good therapist uses only scientifically validated techniques. Research shows that techniques have little to do with effective therapy.
Some Descriptors of Effective Therapists
- An effective therapist focuses on the personal and cultural needs of the client to determine the best therapeutic approach.
- An effective therapist gathers routine feedback from clients relative to how the client feels about the therapy and the therapist.
- Effective therapists listen, extend empathy, acceptance, and care in ways that are emotionally healing.
- An effective therapist is culturally aware.
- An effective therapist supports and activates the self-righting potentials of the client.
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