{"product_id":"the-adult-attachment-interview","title":"The Adult Attachment Interview","description":"\u003cdiv data-widget_type=\"bdt-advanced-heading.default\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-id=\"1c86931\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c86931 elementor-widget elementor-widget-bdt-advanced-heading\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-settings='{\"titleMultiColor\":\"no\"}' class=\"bdt-ep-advanced-heading\" id=\"1c86931\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"bdt-ep-advanced-heading-title\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bdt-ep-advanced-heading-main-title\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bdt-ep-advanced-heading-main-title-inner\"\u003eThe Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-widget_type=\"blockquote.default\" 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class=\"e-q-footer\"\u003e\u003ccite class=\"elementor-blockquote__author\"\u003e-Psychology Networker\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-id=\"3e8d7d2\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e8d7d2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychotherapynetworker.org\/post\/6-most-read-networker-articles-2016\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHow the Adult Attachment Interview Became the Most Important Development in Attachment Research   \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/285731843_Ten_clinical_uses_of_the_Adult_Attachment_Interview\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTen Clinical Uses of the Adult Attachment Interview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy Do We Use the AAI?\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen attachment theory was blossoming, it didn’t provide an accompanying toolbox of tactics and techniques, though it did offer a new therapeutic attitude, justifying deep, soul-felt work, which offered a genuinely new beginning towards treatment for adult attachment disorder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsychodynamic therapists certainly understood the enduring impact of childhood experiences, but even if they’d been fascinated by attachment studies, it was still an open question how these early mother–child bonds might play out in adult psychopathology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning in the 1970s and throughout the ’80s, Mary Main–a research psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley–began interviewing parents and studying their interactions with their babies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the study, they found that attachment rejection or trauma in a mother’s childhood was systematically related to the same sort of attachment issues between her and her child.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom this kind of attachment research, Main and her colleagues devised an interview method—the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI).\u003cbr\u003eThis interview contained 20 open-ended questions about people’s recollections of their own childhood, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThink of five words or phrases that reflect your relationship with your mother.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat’s the first time you remember being separated from your parents?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDid you ever feel rejected?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDid you experience the loss of someone close to you?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow do you think your experience affected your adult personality?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore important than the specific content gathered from this attachment research—which could be more or less accurate—was the way people responded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether their personal narratives were coherent or confused, whether they dismissed the questions with short, uninformative answers, or whether they rambled on pointlessly, provided real—and ultimately, empirically validated—insights about their state of mind, attachment style, and capacity to form relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMain’s goal, she said, was to “surprise the unconscious” into revealing itself. Furthermore, the AAI has, over the years of repeated use, been found capable of targeting, with more than 80 percent predictability, how a child of the adult interviewee would be attached to his\/her parent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile other variants of adult attachment measures have been developed, the AAI set the stage for an empirically validated way of following the transmission of attachment patterns from generation to generation—documenting a kind of psychic lineage from parent to child to grandchild.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn fact, according to psychology researchers Howard and Miriam Steele in \u003cem\u003eClinical Applications of the Adult Attachment Interview\u003c\/em\u003e, the AAI was “\u003cspan\u003ethe single most important development in attachment research over the last 25 years.\u003c\/span\u003e“\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMary Sykes Wylie and Lynn Turner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsychology Networker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLearning to score and code the Adult Attachment Interview begins with a two-week intensive training institute. As important background, the institute starts with a brief summary of Bowlby’s attachment theory, a description of the Infant Attachment categories of Mary Ainsworth (including the Strange Situation Procedure), and the subsequent links to adult attachment theory and the Adult Attachment Interview. Following this preliminary review, the bulk of the training is focused on the AAI scoring and coding system developed by Mary Main and Ruth Goldwyn. AAI transcripts are both studied and scored by trainees outside of class and also carefully reviewed during class time. Less formal discussion of research and clinical questions that arise during the training is scheduled and conducted as needed. Upon completion of the course, trainees are given several booklets to take with them for continued study and practice in preparation for certification testing. The certification process takes an additional 18 months and consists of three tests taken at 6-month intervals. Each test is a set of about ten transcripts to be coded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe offer the AAI at the Adult Attachment Program.  Dr Zack is certified “reliable” to score AAIs for attachment classifications and Reflective Functioning..  Reach out or click the button below if you’re interested in taking an AAI or if you’re a clinician and would like me to score an AAI for you.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUpon registration for your AAI, you'll be contacted regarding scheduling.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFee Structure : \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInterview - $150\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslation - $100\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScoring and Interpret - $200\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCompose Report - $100\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTotal - $550\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Adult Attachment Program","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48094216814807,"sku":null,"price":550.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/8183\/9575\/files\/Copy-of-Dr_png.webp?v=1765296107","url":"https:\/\/the-adult-attachment-programs-store.myshopify.com\/products\/the-adult-attachment-interview","provider":"The Adult Attachment Program's Online Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}