A Guide for Assessing Clients’ Attachment to the Sacred: The Spiritual Attachment History

Dansby, Rachael A.; Hayes, Nicholas; Schleiden, Cydney

doi:10.1007/s10591-017-9402-5

“…Spirituality and religion show themselves both in a couple's individual lives and during the marriage (Walsh, 2012). Therapists who practic emotionally focused therapy transform the insecure attachment relationships between a couple into new and healthy attachment relationships using spirituality (Dansby et al, 2017). While couples therapists cannot ignore the religious and spiritual content offered to them while working with couples, they want to integrate these into their psychotherapy practices (Furrow et al, 2011).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Can you tell me when you start to feel unsafe here? (Item 19) The Spiritual Attachment History examines the clients' spiritual lives within the framework of their attachment histories, which are basically based on the insecure attachment relationships they establish with God and others (Dansby et al, 2017).…”

Section: Romantic Attachment and God Attachmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Spirituality adds meaning to people's existence, sets moral standards for living, and enables humanity to connect with each other sincerely (Aponte, 2002). Spirituality as a whole adds meaning and purpose to interpersonal relations, describes the relationship between God and humans, sets the moral standards for living, and instills a sense of hope in people (Dansby, Hayes, & Schleiden, 2017). In psychotherapy, significant positive relationships have been found for religion/spirituality with health, quality of life, social support, and the decreased presence of depressive symptoms (Pickard & Nelson-Becker, 2011).…”

Section: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and Spiritualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A semi-structured interview form has been developed for psychological counselors and specifically designed to examine clients' spiritual and religious backgrounds of clients with a focus on attachment theory. Using this interview form, which is known as Spiritual Attachment History (Dansby et al, 2017), the study aims to obtain an auxiliary tool for clients to convey what they want to tell. Sample items taken from this 19-item evaluation tool are given below.…”

Section: Romantic Attachment and God Attachmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…The Spiritual Attachment History examines the clients' spiritual lives within the framework of their attachment histories, which are basically based on the insecure attachment relationships they establish with God and others (Dansby et al, 2017).…”

Section: Romantic Attachment and God Attachmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Emotionally focused therapy was created as a couples therapy approach and has become a frequently used therapeutic approach these days. This approach, theoretically based on the understanding that the attachment relationship observed between mother and child characterized by proximity seeking and separation anxiety resembles the relationship observed between couples, aims to turn unhealthy attachment relationships between couples into healthy ones. This process is realized by revealing the implicit and hidden emotions that cause problem situations to occur and gaining awareness about these emotions. Different studies have shown spirituality to be a major factor both in forming and solving problem situations in therapy for couples who care about spiritual values. In particular, the meanings couples who attach importance to religious values attribute to marriage and the quality of the relations developed within this meaning can be handled within the framework of emotionally focused couples therapy. The purpose of this article is to explain how the therapy process proceeds when emotionally focused couples therapy is combined with spiritual values and to show which methods and techniques are used in the light of sample cases. In addition, the article aims to raise awareness on how to use this therapy approach, as it can be combined with Islamic elements, and investigates how to set an example in this regard. This study, which briefly introduces emotionally focused couples therapy, provides short examples of how to perform interventions while working with couples who seek counseling using religious or spiritual matters.

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