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The impact of therapist-trainee attachment style on emotional reactions to difficult patients.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The impact of therapist-trainee attachment style on emotional reactions to difficult patients./
Author:	Ackerman, Annee.
Description:	1 online resource (219 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: B.
Subject:	Clinical psychology. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355332209

The impact of therapist-trainee attachment style on emotional reactions to difficult patients.
Ackerman, Annee.

The impact of therapist-trainee attachment style on emotional reactions to difficult patients. - 1 online resource (219 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Long Island University, The Brooklyn Center, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

Although attachment style is intricately linked to important therapist capacities like affect regulation and emotional attunement, few studies have examined attachment related differences in therapist's abilities to perform these functions, or to what extent these acquired capacities can be engaged effectively with patients that challenge the therapist's sense of competence and security. This work investigates how therapist-trainees' attachment insecurity impacts their subjective reactions to patients. Mixed-experiencelevel therapist-trainees (N= 201) completed self-report measures about their subjective reactions to a "difficult or "non-difficult" patient with whom they currently work. The results showed that describing a difficult (versus non-difficult) patient had mediumto-large effects on the therapist-trainees' self-reported anger, perceptions of negative affect in the treatment relationship, and approach/withdrawal reactions, whereas, counter to the predictions, the therapist-trainees' attachment style had only a small, statistically non-significant direct effect on their reactions. Additionally, level of training showed a small-sized moderating effect on therapist-trainee attachment avoidance. At earlier stages of training, therapist-trainees with higher attachment avoidance reported less negative affect in the treatment relationship and fewer withdrawal oriented-reactions, whereas, at later stages of training, they reported more negative affect in the treatment and more withdraw-oriented reactions. Consistent with the hypothesis, these results suggest that the training process may help therapist-trainees with elevated attachment avoidance to increase their attunement to negative affect in themselves and the patient, thereby developing what has come to be called an earned-secure response style.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355332209Subjects--Topical Terms:

649607
Clinical psychology.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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