Understanding and Improving your Attachment Style Worksheet

Secure

  • Have healthy boundaries
  • Can trust people and form healthy relationships
  • Are able to deal better with conflicts

Anxious

  • Has negative self-worth
  • Has fear of abandonment need constant validation
  • Depends on partner shows clinginess  

Dismissive Aviodant

  • Seems cold
  • Avoid being intimate
  • Has negative self and world view 
  • Are unable to commit

Fearful avoidant

  • Has low self-esteem
  • Has fear of evaluation
  • Has fear of rejection
  • Unable to maintain trust on others

Which style is yours?

How it manifests in your behavior? How it affects your behavior?

What can be your improved behavior and how it will affect your relationships 

Reference

Levy, K. N., Johnson, B. N., Gooch, C. V., & Kivity, Y. (2019). Attachment style. In J. C. Norcross & B. E. Wampold (Eds.), Psychotherapy relationships that work: Evidence-based therapist responsiveness (pp. 15–55). Oxford University Press.

https://www.helpguide.org/articles/relationships-communication/attachment-and-adult-relationships.htm   

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