Effects of attachment-focused versus relationship skills-focused group interventions for college students with insecure attachment patterns

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-62

  Kilmann, Peter R ^a   Urbaniak, Geoffrey C ^a   Parnell, Michele M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment issues; Group intervention; Relationship skills

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADULT; ANGER; AWARENESS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 33645635493     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616730600585219     Document Type: Article

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