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Adult Attachment: Some Considerations for Family Therapy
Author(s) -
Radojevic Marija
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1996.tb01069.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , psychology , attachment theory , context (archaeology) , mental health , family systems theory , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , social psychology , paleontology , biology
The elaboration of attachment theory and research into the domains of adult and of mental representations of relationships has generated considerable interest amongst many mental health practitioners. The clinical implications include the potential to understand better how representations of relationships are transmitted from one generation to the next and how these are translated into parenting practices. The aim of this paper is to examine theoretical concepts associated with adult attachment and its measurement and to examine the contribution which adult attachment theory may make to the practice of family therapy. Central assumptions are that the individual cannot be understood adequately outside the context of social relationships and that the family may be understood to operate as a self regulating system.