Helping people change is no small task. But attachment theory and the secure-base system can help guide you in therapy, no matter what model or techniques you like to use.
Attachment-based therapy is based on six broad principles that spell out the acronym SECURE:
Adds family counselor Joshua Straub, Ph.D., of Lynchburg, Virginia: “Parents may not even realize they’re doing it. But a lot of times their personality clicks better with one child than the other. So they give the favored child a lot of special treatment or are easier on that child in terms of punishment. There may already be some bad feelings between the siblings, but this favoritism just adds fuel to the fire.”
Love him or hate him, there’s no denying Johnny Cash lived with passion. Though his journey was packed full of arrests, affairs, and addiction, he battled through it all to become one of America’s most legendary and iconic singers of all time. In the award-winning movie about him, Walk the Line, there is an interesting scene that brings to… View Post
Having attended a state university for my undergraduate work, I (Josh) had the privilege of befriending an atheist who lived with me the last three years of college. With front row seats, watching his drunken oblivion throughout our college years worried me greatly. He nearly died on a number of occasions and had numerous run-ins with “Johnny Law.”
