61st Annual
Conference
Thursday,
February 26
Afternoon Workshops
3:00 – 6:00 P.M.
Workshop 33
The
Instinctive Attachment System and Group Interaction: Affect
Attunement, Identification, Arousal and Regulation
Chair:
Una McCluskey,
D.Phil., Senior Lecturer, University of
York, Social Policy and Social Work, York, England
This workshop will
present a theory of interaction for individual and group
psychotherapy based on attachment theory and extended attachment
theory. Extended attachment theory builds on the work of Bowlby,
Ainsworth and others and introduces the instinctive sexual system,
the instinctive system for self defense and instinctive
interest-sharing systems as motivational systems which bring people
into relationship with one another. Video clips will demonstrate
affect attunement, care-seeking, care-giving and failures.
didactic-demonstration-sharing of
work experiences-experiential
Course References:
1. McCluskey, U., Roger, D. & Nash, P. (1997). A preliminary study
of the role of affect
attunement in adult psychotherapy. Journal of Human Relations, 50,
1261-1275.
2. McCluskey, U., Hopper, C. & Bingley Miller, L. (1999).
Goal-Corrected Empathic
Attunement: Developing and Rating the Concept within an Attachment
Perspective:
Theory, Research, Practice and Training. American Psychological
Association, 36, 60-90.
3. McCluskey, U. (2002). The Dynamics of Attachment and
Systems-Centered Group
Psychotherapy. Group Dynamic: Theory, Research and Practice.
American Psychological
Association, 6, 131-142.
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