To Be Met as a Person : the Dynamics of Attachment in Professional Encounters / Una McCluskey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCluskey, Una, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Empathy.

Psychotherapy.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a thought-provoking read that sets out a framework for thinking about the way we interact with one another. It helps us make sense of the feelings we have when we are successful and not successful in providing help for other people. The author looks at the early research in psychotherapy on this subject and also at attachment theory and how this relates to adults. A series of experiments also explores the role of empathic attunement in effective caregiving.

Contents:

COVER; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; 1 The dynamics of careseeking and caregiving; 2 Research on the process of interaction in adult psychotherapy; 3 Infant/caregiver interactions: the process of affect identification,communication, and regulation; 4 Patterns of careseeking/caregiving relationships: research into attachment behaviour in infants and young children; 5 Presenting the concept of goal-corrected empathic attunement:effective caregiving within psychotherapy; 6 First experiment: the identification of affect attunement in adult psychotherapy

7 Second experiment: is empathic attunement interactive?8 Third experiment: an experiment designed to test whether secure attachment style correlates with empathic attunement and whether empathic attunement can be improved with training; 9 The process of obtaining a reliable measure for goal-corrected empathic attunement; 10 Results of the Third Experiment; 11 Patterns of functional and dysfunctional careseeking-caregiving partnerships; 12 Interactions between therapists and patients and their roots in infancy; Appendix 1: Role play scenarios for day one

Appendix 2: Measure of student attunement to be completed by the student after each interview Appendix 3: Measure of student attunement to be completed by the actor after each interview; Appendix 4: Role play scenarios for day two; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-264) and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-429-92306-6

0-429-90883-0

0-429-48406-2

1-283-24930-8

9786613249302

1-84940-483-6

9780429484063

OCLC:

594919766