Assignment: Adult Attachment
Assignment: Adult Attachment
Take a moment to reflect on your friendships. Think about who you consider to be your oldest friend and who might be your closest. Are they the same person? Why or why not?
While some individuals maintain the same friendships throughout their lifespans, others adapt their circles of friends as their interests, careers, and values change. As you reflect on your past and current friendships, how might your friendships and attachments to others compare?
In this Assignment, you will take Fraley’s Adult Attachment Survey ( http://www.web-research-design.net/cgi-bin/crq/crq.pl ) to determine your personal attachment pattern. You will then consider how issues related to attachment have impacted your peer and romantic relationships, career choices, and current identity.
Complete a 2- to 3-page paper in which you do the following:
Briefly summarize your personal patterns of attachment
Identify your overall score and the corresponding attachment category
Explain whether you think your results are accurate and why
Explain how your attachment (either perceived or as identified in the Adult Attachment Survey) has shaped your development as an adult
Justify your response with specific references to this week’s Learning Resources and the current literature
Required Resources
Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.
Readings
REQUIRED – Broderick, P. C., & Blewitt, P. (2015). The life span: Human development for helping professionals (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
Chapter 11, “Physical and Cognitive Development in Young Adulthood” (pp. 408-437)
Chapter 12, “Socioemotional and Vocational Development in Young Adulthood” (pp. 438-476)
ADDITIONAL – Arnett, J. J. (2007). Suffering, selfish, slackers? Myths and reality about emerging adults. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 36(1), 23–29.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Benson, J. E., Johnson, M. K., & Elder, G. H., Jr. (2012). The implications of adult identity for educational and work attainment in young adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 48(6), 1752–1758.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Brandell, J. R. (2010). Contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives on attachment. Psychoanalytic Social Work, 17(2), 132–157.
