“Attachment style and clinical outcome within a DBT-informed Therapeutic Community” – Brendan James Dunlop and Dr Mark Andrew McFetridge

Reliability and consistency in caregiver interaction was proposed as crucial, given that the primary caregiver must act as a secure base from which the infant can explore their social world, and a safe haven to retreat to when needed.

– Dunlop and McFetridge (16)

This study by Brendan James Dunlop and Mark Andrew McFetridge examines the possible relationship between self-reported adult attachment style, therapy programme engagement and measures of psychological distress and dissociation within a therapeutic community.

Services should be tuned in to the specific attachment needs of the population they are working with, as this will inform the appropriateness and effectiveness of intervention.

– Dunlop and McFetridge (23)

This article can be downloaded here via York St John institutional access.