
Mentalization-based understanding of borderline personality disorder
Anthony W. Bateman and Peter Fonagy
in Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mentalization-based treatment
This chapter explores mentalization-based understanding of borderline personality disorder (BPD). It considers the developmental roots of BPD, the relevance of the attachment theory ...
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Phillip Shaver, Mario Mikulincer, and the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale
Robbie Duschinsky
in Cornerstones of Attachment Research
This chapter discusses Philip Shaver, Mario Mikulincer, and the Experiences in Close Relationships scale, the most widely used self-report measure of adult attachment. The chapter begins by ...
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The Target Diagnosis: PTSD
John C. Markowitz
in Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
This chapter undertakes a review of the diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as defined in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ...
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Parents’ Insightfulness: The Importance of Keeping the Inner World of the Child in Mind for Parenting Plan Evaluations
David Oppenheim and Nina Koren-Karie
in Parenting Plan Evaluations: Applied Research for the Family Court (2 edn)
A central aspect of parental functioning that may have great importance for parenting plan evaluations and has received considerable research attention recently is parental ...
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Childhood Anxiety Disorders from the Perspective of Emotion Regulation and Attachment
Ross A. Thompson
in The Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety
This chapterconsiders childhood anxiety disorders in light of developmental research on emotion regulation and the security of attachment. Attachment and emotionregulation have been topics ...
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Attachment Style
Kenneth N. Levy, Benjamin N. Johnson, Caroline V. Gooch, and Yogev Kivity
in Psychotherapy Relationships that Work: Volume 2: Evidence-Based Therapist Responsiveness (3 edn)
Attachment style describes characteristic patterns of relating to close others and has important implications for psychotherapy. This chapter provides an original meta-analysis of 36 ...
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On Public Figure Howlers
Frederick S. Calhoun and Stephen W. Weston
in Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Public Figures: A Psychological and Behavioral Analysis
This chapter discusses stalkers who threaten and frighten with words, or expresssome unrequited emotional attachment, but never follow through with any actions (referred to as 'howlers', as ...
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Adapting IPT for PTSD
John C. Markowitz
in Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
This chapter reviews adaptations we made to IPT in order to treat patients with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In shifting from the standard model of IPT used for depression, ...
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The Bond of the Working Alliance
Andrés E. Pérez-Rojas, Jazmin M. González, and Jairo N. Fuertes
in Working Alliance Skills for Mental Health Professionals
The authors describe the “working bond” aspect of Bordin’s conceptualization of the working alliance. Within the working alliance, the bond refers to an emotional attachment formed and ...
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Models of the Core Features of Borderline Personality Disorder
Mary C. Zanarini
in In the Fullness of Time: Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
This chapter details three theories of the core features of BPD. Linehan has emphasized emotion dysregulation, while Gunderson has focused on problematic attachment. Zanarini has offered a ...
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Critical Analysis of Research on Parenting Plans and Children’s Well-Being
Michael E. Lamb
in Parenting Plan Evaluations: Applied Research for the Family Court (2 edn)
Most children form psychologically significant relationships with the adults, typically parents, with whom they live and grow up. When those parents separate, it is important in most cases ...
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Cornerstones of Attachment Research
Robbie Duschinsky
Cornerstones of Attachment Research re-examines the work of key laboratories that have contributed to the study of attachment. In doing so, the book traces the development in a ...
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Mary Ainsworth and the Strange Situation Procedure
Robbie Duschinsky
in Cornerstones of Attachment Research
Attachment as an empirical research paradigm may be regarded as having fully commenced only with Ainsworth’s work. This chapter begins by introducing the biographical context of Ainsworth’s ...
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Using the mentalizing model to understand personality disorder
Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy
in Mentalization-Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
This chapter describes the key features associated with borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and relates these features to mentalizing impairments. The ...
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Developmental Pathways to Parenting
Thomas J. McMahon
in Young Adult Mental Health
This chapter aims to illustrate how lifehistory theory and attachment theory can beused to inform understanding of a broad developmentalpathway to early parenthood that, inthe context of ...
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The neurobiology of addiction and attachment
Helena J. V. Rutherford, Marc N. Potenza, and Linda C. Mayes
in Parenting and Substance Abuse: Developmental Approaches to Intervention
This chapter examines the neurobiology of addiction and attachment in order to elucidate the mechanisms that may underscore the impact of addiction on parenting. It reviews evidence that ...
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Children Exposed to Parental Substance Abuse who are Placed in Foster Care: An Attachment Perspective
Mirjam Kalland and Jari Sinkkonen
in Parenting and Substance Abuse: Developmental Approaches to Intervention
This chapter examines, from an attachment perspective, the risk and protective factors associated with placing children of substance-abusing parents in foster care. It first reviews ...
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Transmission of Parenting Models at the Level of Representation: Implications for Mother–Child Dyads Affected by Maternal Substance Abuse
Hannah M. Lyden and Nancy E. Suchman
in Parenting and Substance Abuse: Developmental Approaches to Intervention
This chapter examines the vulnerability to substance abuse disorders conferred by mental processes at the representational level, with particular emphasis on early mother-infant ...
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Meet the Bad Guys
David F. Tolin, Randy O. Frost, and Gail Steketee
in Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding (2 ed.)
This chapter outlines psychological factor or way of thinking that prevent people who hoard from benefiting from organizing books and programs. These include control of hoarding not being a ...
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Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Public Figures: A Psychological and Behavioral Analysis
J. Reid Meloy, Lorraine Sheridan, and Jens Hoffmann (eds)
This title is a comprehensive survey of the current knowledge about stalking, violence risk, and threat management towards public figures. With contributions from forensic psychologists and ...
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