Kristin Roberts, M.A.

Therapist Attachment-Related Behaviors and Their Effects on Psychotherapy Process and Outcome

For more than 20 years, our attachment research teams at Western Michigan University (WMU) have been using Bowlby’s attachment theory to examine important psychotherapy process and outcome variables. What have we found? Generally speaking, client and therapist attachment do matter in psychotherapy—often times, in many of the same ways that John Bowlby would have predicted. […]

Eric M. Sauer, Ph.D. + 3 more

March 2, 2020