The results suggest that while entering grandparent care often disrupts child-parent attachment, secure attachment between custodial grandmothers and grandchildren can protect against negative impacts on socioemotional functioning.
Just like romantic relationships, friendships grow and evolve. Not all friendships are meant to last a lifetime, and holding onto what no longer nourishes can leave us feeling drained.
Children with ADHD exhibited significantly more total recall errors, omission errors, and transposition errors compared to typically developing children, suggesting impairments in phonological storage/rehearsal processes and manipulation/reordering aspects of working memory.
When feeling connected to partners, highly avoidant individuals use protective buffering to spare partners distress. Beliefs about not burdening partners explain this.
Attachment theory proposes that parent-child attachment relationships shape children’s emotional development.
Attachment theory posits that the quality of early caregiver relationships provides the foundation for how people regulate emotions across their lifespan.
Keeping romance alive in long-distance relationships is crucial to maintaining emotional intimacy and connection when physical intimacy isn’t possible.
Attachment insecurity, specifically attachment anxiety and avoidance, is associated with greater PTSD symptoms following a trauma. This occurs through the mechanism of maladaptive coping strategies used by insecurely attached individuals, namely hyperactivating strategies for those high in attachment anxiety and deactivating strategies for those high in attachment avoidance.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a serious condition associated with significant impairment. While effective treatments exist, many individuals receive inappropriate or even harmful therapies that can worsen symptoms.
Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) is an effective treatment approach for reducing obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms in adults.