Helen M. Coble

TL;DR: The first version of the Client Attachment to Therapist Scale (CATS) contained 100 items that were administered at 4 counseling agencies in survey packets to 138 clients who had completed at least 5 sessions with their therapists as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, current social competencies and memories of attachment bonds with each parent were examined as they related to influences on formation of the working alliance, and the results indicated that parental bonds, especially with fathers, were significantly associated with social competence.

TL;DR: Sarason et al. as mentioned in this paper found that at least three conditions are necessary for an individual to derive benefit from social support for coping with a given stressful life event: (1) the environment must offer support of the functional types and from relationship sources that match the coping requirements of the event; (2) the individual must possess social skills necessary to engage in supportive relationships, establish intimacy, and recruit the specific types of social support needed for cope with the Stressor; and (3) theindividual must have the personality disposition and willingness to exercise these skills.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined alexithymia as a mediator by which dysfunctional family environment in childhood affects adult clients' attachment relationship to their therapist and found that fear of separation was associated with both alexity and poor client attachment to therapist.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed recent elaborations of attachment theory as applied to adult close personal relationships, and points of similarity and difference between the attachment-based constructs measured by the CATS and measures of client working alliance and transference are clarified.