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Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples and Attachment Theory
Author(s) -
Crawley Jim,
Grant Jan
Publication year - 2005
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.1467-8438.2005.tb00647.x
Subject(s) - attachment theory , context (archaeology) , experiential learning , psychotherapist , psychology , set (abstract data type) , process (computing) , family therapy , therapeutic relationship , social psychology , computer science , paleontology , mathematics education , biology , programming language , operating system
Emotionally focused therapy for couples (EFTC) is an important framework for couples therapy. It provides an integrative model, drawing upon experiential, systems and attachment theory to understand the dynamics of the couple relationship and to describe the therapeutic process. The aim of this paper is to ask how EFTC uses attachment theory, and whether it draws as fully as it can upon the richness of that theory to inform the process of therapy. This is set in the context of the evolving importance of attachment theory for therapeutic work.