The Attachment Therapy Companion by Arthur Becker-Weidman

Author:Arthur Becker-Weidman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780393708004
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Anticipated Outcomes

Treatment goals should be established collaboratively between the clinician, caregivers, and child. Goals must be individualized to fit the assessment of needs, strengths, developmental level of the child, and caregiver capacities. These goals typically focus on improvements in the following areas:

Enhanced security in the caregiver-child relationship, as evidenced by the child’s willingness and ability to access comfort, help, and assistance from the caregiver, so that the caregiver can become a more normalized source of support for the child.

Enhanced affect-regulation skills in the child, as evidenced by the child’s ability to identify, express, and tolerate a range of both positive and negative emotions, be able to stay engaged and regulated, and manage emotions constructively.

Enhanced cognitive skills in the child, as evidenced by the child’s ability to identify negative thoughts, seek evidence to determine if they are still accurate in the present, challenge distorted thoughts, and strengthen positive thoughts in the present.

Enhanced developmentally appropriate self-efficacy, as evidenced by a more balanced global sense of self-esteem (ability to accept strengths and weaknesses), capacity to organize self toward achievement of developmental goals, and acquisition of more chronologically appropriate behaviors.

Enhanced interpersonal skills, as evidenced by ability to more accurately read social cues, manage interactive repair with others, act in empathic and pro-social ways toward others, and demonstrate age-appropriate moral development.

Enhanced caregiver capacities to be insightful, reflective, sensitive, and committed to the child. This can be seen in the following: less critical, blaming, or negative attributions regarding their child; the use of more accepting and less pejorative language in discussing the child; more empathy for the child; and more consistent use of attachment-facilitating parenting methods (Becker-Weidman & Shell, 2010).

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