Attachment Theory in Depth

Attachment Theory in Depth is a Psychology course that explains how early bonds influence adult relationships, emotional patterns, parenting, and the ability to repair connection after conflict. Students will gain a practical, research-grounded understanding of attachment patterns and learn to apply the theory with nuance, care, and accuracy.

Apply Attachment Theory To Relationships, Regulation, And Repair

• Understand secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized attachment patterns without reducing people to labels.
• Learn how early caregiving, temperament, trauma, culture, and environment shape internal working models.
• Explore adult intimacy, conflict cycles, protest behavior, withdrawal, and healthier repair strategies.
• Build practical insight for parenting, friendships, work relationships, and earned security.

A practical, research-grounded course on how early bonds shape adult intimacy, emotion regulation, parenting, and repair.

In Attachment Theory in Depth, students study the foundations of Attachment Theory through the work of Bowlby, Ainsworth, and later developments in Psychology, beginning with the attachment system itself: safety, proximity, distress, and the human need for reliable connection. The course then examines core attachment patterns, including secure attachment and trust, anxious attachment and hyperactivation strategies, avoidant attachment and deactivation strategies, and disorganized attachment shaped by unresolved fear. Across the lessons, students learn how internal working models develop over time, how caregiving and temperament interact, and how attachment continues to influence adolescence, identity, dating, long-term partnership, family life, friendships, and work. The course also addresses attachment and well-being, including emotion regulation, the nervous system, trauma, loss, and attachment injury, while emphasizing ethical use of the theory and the limits of typing people. By the end, students will be able to recognize attachment dynamics more clearly, respond to relationship patterns with greater precision, and use Attachment Theory in Depth to support healthier connection, stronger boundaries, better repair, and more secure ways of relating.