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In this chapter, I discuss parent coaching with secure dyads and parents with secure/autonomous attachment state of mind. First, I review characteristics of secure attachment and parenting behaviors associated with secure attachment. Second, I review characteristics of secure/autonomous state of mind. Third, I discuss clinical observations and recommendations for coaching parents in secure dyads and parents with secure/autonomous state of mind.
What began as a quest to understand the extraordinary has revealed the power of the ordinary.
(Masten 2001)
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This is a fictional account illustrating characteristics of a secure dyad and a parent with a secure/autonomous state of mind.
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Troutman, B. (2015). Ordinary Magic. In: Integrating Behaviorism and Attachment Theory in Parent Coaching. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15239-4_5
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