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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2007. / Principal faculty advisor: R. Rogers Kobak, Dept. of Psychology. Includes bibliographical references.

Our attachment style, how it is developed, and the impact it has on individuals have been important topics of interest for generations. While previous studies have found insecure attachments and emotional distress are positively related, this study attempts to find the correlations looking at attachment styles on their own. This study introduces the investigation of specific attachment levels on certain aspects of emotional distress (generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and depression). Overall, this study aims to identify if attachment style serves as a predictor of emotional distress, but more specifically, its manifestation. For example, it will attempt to find distinct attachment styles as indicators of social anxiety, depression, and general anxiety disorder based on previous findings and characteristics of the attachment styles and psychological disorders.

Mona Wilhelmsson Göstas, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden, mona.vilhelmsson gostas@orebroll.se Attachment styles are relevant to psychotherapy since they highlight the way a person handles interpersonal and emotional stress. This thesis aimed to examine how psychotherapy patients in the public mental health care system report attachment styles related to interpersonal problems and diagnosis before and after psychotherapy and to examine problems and changes and psychotherapy contract and process from patients’ experiences of cognitive behavioural oriented therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic oriented psychotherapy (PDT). The studies are based on data from patients admitted to psychotherapy within the public psychiatric services in Örebro County Council. Studies I and IV were quantitative and used self-reports to examine attachment styles and interpersonal problems before and after psychotherapy. Studies II and III were qualitative interview studies examining patients experiences of problems, changes and psychotherapy process. The patients were diagnosed with mood disorders, anxiety disorders, adjustment disorders and personality disorders and reported insecure avoidant and anxious attachment styles that correlated positively with interpersonal problems when they started therapy. Psychotherapy with CBT or PDT enabled them to turn attachment styles into more secure ones and decrease interpersonal problems Patients aged between 26 and 39, patients who attended 11-25 sessions and patients diagnosed with a personality disorder reported greater changes in secure related attachment than others. Patients described their problems as emotions that could not be regulated, as cognitive disabilities and as problematic behaviours that implied a self-centredness. During the course of psychotherapy, the patients gained abilities to handle their problems. The perceived self-centeredness changed which increased their participation in their life-context. Similarities across the therapy orientations showed that the creation of a new context was essential to pay full attention to the patient’s problems, and that the working method and cooperation with the psychotherapist made up a whole. To make the therapy effective, it is important to build up confidence in cooperation and secure base functions like offering predictability and shaping interventions according to the needs of the patient and their ability to use them.