Psychoeducation

September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness month. It is intended to highlight efforts at suicide prevention and reduce the stigma around talking about suicide, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts. Suicide is now the 12th leading cause of death. In 2020 over 45,000 Americans died by…

Avoidant attachment develops when caregiving is emotionally distant and strict. These parents are often emotionally misattuned to their children. They do not tolerate emotional expression and expect their child to be independent and tough. When their child is reaching out for support, reassurance or affection,…

Anxious attachment develops when caregiving is inconsistent, unpredictable, and misattuned. These caregivers tend to be more aware of their own needs than the needs of their child. This leads the child to cycle between seeking comfort from their caregiver to pushing them away. As the…

Attachment is the interpersonal bond between child and caregiver that is developed through the accumulation of all the successes and failures in the caregiver meeting the child’s needs for physical and emotional care. From this relationship with our original caregivers, we develop working models of…

John Bowlby was a British psychologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.  According to John Bowlby, attachment is the interpersonal bond between child and parent that serves to protect individuals from harm and to obtain security. In a healthy family situation, when there are signs of danger, the…

This quote comes from Richard Chefetz, MD, and he states, “In the practice of psychotherapy, there is no “fast food,” no short-cut to relatedness, no hyper-link to the creation of intimacy with people who may only have experienced a relationship as a source of pain.”…