Adaptive Attachment: Using Attachment Theory to Guide Intervention - 2024 Conference

Session Description

 All information is sensory information. Whether from outside or inside of our bodies, our nervous systems are constantly receiving and compiling information about our selves-in-context. Evolved for survival, our nervous systems take that information and convert it to predict the future as accurately as possible in order to keep us safe. By processing, and inherently transforming, information, we are disposed to act protectively. If we, and our loved ones, are alive and safe, then our strategies are working.

Speaker: Michael Dunbry

Learning Objectives: 

Learning Outcome #1: Identify transformations of information

In a simplified system, sadness (or desire for comfort) disposes one to approach for comfort, anger disposes approach with aggression, and fear disposes withdrawal. However, few of us are organized so simply. These emotions may be exaggerated or inhibited, and they may dispose alternate behaviors. In such a paradigm, it can be difficult to meet one’s own emotional…