Exploring the Impact of Attachment Styles on Therapeutic Outcomes in Individual, Couples, and Group Psychotherapy
The concept of attachment theory can help explain things as various as infantile bonding and adult relationship evolution, and especially how attachment styles may influence therapeutic relationships. The article dwells in detail on four attachment styles, namely, secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized, besides their influence on the element of therapist-client interaction. Practitioners have been highly emphasized to recognize and do away with their own attachment styles that may somehow have an impact on their effectiveness and in addition the patient’s development of attachment to the Higher power which is a key element in their emotional healing.