Repairing attachment in families with depressed adolescents: A task analysis.
Aims: This exploratory pilot study (N = 3 sessions, 793 speech units) used task analysis to refine an early model of the attachment task in attachment‐based family therapy (ABFT). The attachment task aims to repair long‐standing parent–adolescent relational ruptures that inhibit parents from being a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Clinical Psychology Vol. 79; no. 1; pp. 201 - 210 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jan2023
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