Understanding the impact of childhood developmental stages on the therapeutic alliance: Deconstruction of the therapeutic alliance viewed from a developmental perspective
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The author challenges the usual divisions into one person and two person therapeutic approaches, and the emphases on I’ness versus we’ness, by applying the childhood stages of development through symbiosis/attachment followed by autonomy/ differentiation to what is needed as the client revisits these stages in creating a relationship with a practitioner. Regardless of therapeutic techniques used, the practitioner needs to be alert to the inevitable switch from positive attachment to the apparent conflict as the client seeks to establish a separation from a parent figure that may not have happened in childhood.
DOI: 10.29044/v15i2p27
Author: Tony White
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405925528