Attachment and Romantic Relationship Dissolution: A Case Study of Family Therapy
- Authors
- Koh, Eunkook; Park, Tai-Young; Park, Yanghyun
- Issue Date
- Dec-2020
- Publisher
- WILEY
- Keywords
- relationship dissolution; family therapy; thematic analysis; internal working model; mentalizing
- Citation
- AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF FAMILY THERAPY, v.41, no.4, pp.393 - 410
- Journal Title
- AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF FAMILY THERAPY
- Volume
- 41
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 393
- End Page
- 410
- URI
- http://scholarworks.bwise.kr/ssu/handle/2018.sw.ssu/40303
- DOI
- 10.1002/anzf.1433
- ISSN
- 0814-723X
- Abstract
- This study explores how attachment relationships and traumatic events affected an unmarried adult's relationship dissolutions as well as a therapeutic intervention. Thematic Analysis was applied to ten sessions of family therapy utilising counselling transcripts, video recordings, and counselling logs. The client's experiences of attachment relationship and traumatic events included an anxious mother, inconsistent parenting in infancy, physical and emotional abuse and unempathetic parents (the absence of a secure base), parental conflict, and divorce. This is described in terms of the absence of an internal working model (the aggravation of an insecure attachment system), and an anxious attachment style and relationship dissolution in adulthood (the fixation of attachment pattern). Effective therapeutic intervention strategies included providing a secure base, mentalising and facilitating a relational experience to help the client resolve their attachment problems.
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