Attachment theories have become more popular recently as new research emerges. These approaches use empirically-based and neurobiological research to understand problematic relationship styles. Scientific studies on attachment have found that issues in adult relationships can be reliably predicted from objectively identifiable, early patterns of attachment between parents and children. Therapists using attachment-based approaches aim for healing unconscious psychological and biological processes in the brain and promoting the development of higher-level capacities. Such capacities include the ability to recognize and reflect upon what is happening in one’s own mind and the minds of others, and sort out one from the other.

This approach to therapy is also particularly helpful for teaching parents ways to react that optimize children’s psychological and brain development and improve parent-child relationships. (extrait from PsychCentral)