Abstract

SOUZA, Marcella Ranheri de  and  HINTZ, Helena Centeno. Inconsistent childhood care and adolescent attachment relationships: a case study. Pensando fam. [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.2, pp. 3-14. ISSN 1679-494X.

This work consists in a clinical case study of a female teenager, held in a psychological service. Throughout the individual systemic therapy aspects of the patient’s history were addressed, such as negligence, losings, intra-family adoption and insecure attachment. The therapeutic process considered the patient in the context of her history, relationships’ network and experiences, emphasizing the meanings that she attributed to these events. Thus, within the particularities of the case, the clinical work aimed to understand the impact on the relationship between the type of care received in childhood, attachment in adolescence and self-construction. This study may contribute to elaborate strategies of strategies of systemic intervention that help change the vision of parents or caregivers with regard to attachment of adolescents.

Keywords : Individual systemic therapy; Negligence; Attachment theory; Adolescence; Family relations.

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