Tasca Giorgio A
University of Ottawa.
Psychotherapy (Chic). 2014 Mar;51(1):53-56. doi: 10.1037/a0033015. Epub 2013 Dec 30.
The application of attachment theory to adult psychotherapy represents a growing area of research and practice. Despite the conceptual overlap between group therapeutic factors, attachment theory, and therapeutic tasks as outlined by Bowlby (1988), there is little research on attachment functioning in group therapy. Hence, there remain substantial questions about the role of attachment theory in understanding group therapy processes and outcomes. The three studies in this special section advance the research in some of these important areas, including showing that positive changes in self-reported attachment insecurity among clients persist long after group therapy ends; attachment anxiety affects the level and rate of interpersonal learning in groups; and change in attachment to the therapy group has an impact on longer term change in individual group members' attachment. Each article also examines the impact of these attachment concepts on treatment outcomes. Numerous areas remain to be explored when it comes to the implications of attachment theory for understanding and conducting group therapy, including the conceptual and practical overlap between attachment concepts such as security and exploration with group therapeutic factors such as cohesion and interpersonal learning. The articles in this special section begin to address some of these issues related to attachment theory and its implications for group therapists.
依恋理论在成人心理治疗中的应用是一个不断发展的研究和实践领域。尽管如鲍尔比（1988年）所概述的，团体治疗因素、依恋理论和治疗任务之间存在概念上的重叠，但关于团体治疗中依恋功能的研究却很少。因此，关于依恋理论在理解团体治疗过程和结果中的作用，仍存在大量问题。本专题的三项研究在其中一些重要领域推进了研究，包括表明客户自我报告的依恋不安全感的积极变化在团体治疗结束后很长时间仍持续存在；依恋焦虑影响团体中人际学习的水平和速度；对治疗团体的依恋变化对团体成员个体依恋的长期变化有影响。每篇文章还研究了这些依恋概念对治疗结果的影响。在依恋理论对理解和开展团体治疗的影响方面，仍有许多领域有待探索，包括依恋概念如安全感和探索与团体治疗因素如凝聚力和人际学习之间的概念和实际重叠。本专题的文章开始探讨一些与依恋理论及其对团体治疗师的影响相关的问题。
