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Attachment Organization and Intervention: Roundtable Questions and Thoughts Joe Allen University of Virginia. Copies of related papers are available at: WWW.TEENRESEARCH.ORG. Overarching Question.

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  1. Attachment Organization and Intervention:Roundtable Questions and ThoughtsJoe AllenUniversity of Virginia Copies of related papers are available at:WWW.TEENRESEARCH.ORG

  2. Overarching Question • How should interventions differ depending on the particular attachment organization of a given parent or adolescent? • Caveat: Hypothesis-generation NOT Research Conclusions

  3. Working with Parent Attachment States of Mind • Key Point: Parent and Teen Attachment Organizations are NOT necessarily the same. • Why general parenting advice fails • Dismissing Parents – Overemphasizing distance • Preoccupied Parents – Overemphasizing immaturity • Unresolved Parents – Paralyzed by Fear

  4. Working with Parent Attachment States of Mind • What Works: • Recognizing the emotional FUNCTION of Attachment Organization • Dismissing Parents • Seeing their teen’s desire to connect • Preoccupied Parents • Boundaries • Push for Competence • Unresolved Parents • Identifying their points of control

  5. Working with Adolescent Attachment States of Mind • Secure Teens • Ideal for time-limited treatments (CBT, etc.) • Dismissing Teens: • The ‘reel-in’ process • Preoccupied Teens: • Overly ‘natural’ therapy participants • Providing verbal/semantic clarity • Unresolved/Traumatized Teens: • Establishing Control in 3 ways

  6. Conclusions • Insecure Attachment ≠ Psychopathology • No one to one mapping • Same Disorder, Different attachment organizations • Beyond “One Size Fits All!” Therapies Copies of related papers are available at:WWW.TEENRESEARCH.ORG

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