Anxiety Ratification Therapy For People With Insecure Attachment

Anxiety Ratification Therapy(ART)that is based on Double-conflict Model(which constitutes of Obsession loop and Compulsion loop)which is proposed by Zhang Zhongming for people with Obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD)improves symptoms of people with Obsessive-compulsive disorder and the miserable feelings as to cue people with Obsessive-compulsive disorder through cutting off the Obsession loop by the way of accepting negative emotions entirely and modifying default faiths into flexible thinking(Zhang,Zhang & Li,2010).Results from the clinical research show that Anxiety Ratification Therapy has a good therapeutic effect on lowering anxiety-emotion and depressive emotion and improving the emotional regulation of people with Obsessive-compulsive disorder(Hu,2016).Therefore,it should question that what is the core part of Anxiety Ratification Therapy of improving and lowering negative emotions? How does Anxiety Ratification Therapy make the emotion regulation better? John Bowlby thought that the strong and deeply connected infant-caregiver(usually mother is the caregiver)attachment relationship had not only great influences on someone’s emotional improvement and emotional regulation but also his or her feelings to other,herself or himself,inside and outside world and relationship between them(namely inner working model)(Bowlby,1973).Fraley held the view that the intimate relationship between lovers could also be considered as a kind of Attachment relationship which is called Adult attachment(Hazan & Shaver,1987;Fraley et al.,2013).People with secure adult attachment has more positive feeling to themselves and other;in contrast,people with insecure adult attachment experience more negative representation and feelings to themselves and other(Hazan &Shaver,1994),which is consistent of infant-caregiver attachment’s representation.On account of the impact of attachment on feelings and self-awareness,does it exist the possibility that Anxiety Ratification Therapy can change someone’s emotional feelings and emotional regulation through the adjustment of attachment? Hence,the objective of this experiment is to verify Anxiety Ratification Therapy is efficient in emotional problem form people with insecure attachment.Research one is to approach the differences of state anxiety and state depression between insecure attachment styles and secure attachment style.One hundred and sixty-eight people participated the experiment.Each of them has to complete the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale(SAS),Self-Rating Depression Scale(SDS)and the Chinese edition of Experiences of Close Relationship(ECR)which is to measure anxiety,depression,anxiety factor of Experiences of Close Relationship(ECR)and the avoidance factor of Experiences of Close Relationship(ECR).The findings of the date analysis indicates that scores of anxiety and depression form people with insecure attachment styles is higher significantly than the score form people with secure attachment style.The dreading attachment style gets significantly higher score of depression than the anxious-ambivalent attachment style and avoidant attachment style’s.The score of depression between anxious-ambivalent attachment style and avoidant attachment style is not significantly different.The dreading attachment style gets significantly higher score of state-anxiety than the anxious-ambivalent attachment style and avoidant attachment style’s.The score of anxiety between anxious-ambivalent attachment style and avoidant attachment style is significantly different and the former gets higher score.Consequently,the hypothesis that people the insecure attachment styles is easier to have strong anxious and depressive emotion has been verified.It shows people with insecure attachment styles feel more negative emotions.The purpose of the second research is to explore the therapeutic efficiency of Anxiety Ratification Therapy to the anxious and depressive emotion from people with insecure attachment styles.With the analysis of several consulting segments form participant A,it has been shown that how does Anxiety Ratification Therapy(ART)improve depression emotion and anxious emotion and transform insecure attachment into secure attachment by emotion acceptance and revision of fundamental beliefs.With the relationship between consultant and A as a secure base,she is capable of exploring her inner world and presenting emotion freely.Therapist encourages emotion presentation,names emotion and comprehend emotion that help A to understand and accept her own emotion.A expresses her feelings that she is unwilling to stop the therapy after ten times session,which means that Anxiety Ratification Therapy(ART)has a great effect on her.Meanwhile,it also conveys that 10 times session is not enough for A.Therefore,the ten times therapy is deficient for a complete therapy.After ten times sessions,12 participants has a great change on state-anxiety.Score-reducing rate on state-anxiety in 11 people of them is i greater than 25% which means the treatment is effective and the last one is less than 25%.Less than 25% shows the treatment is not effective on state-anxiety.Score-reducing rate on state-anxiety of 2 of 11 is greater than 50% which means treatment effect is significantly.Score-reducing rate of 11 participants is greater than 25 that proves the treatment works.Score-reducing rate of the last one is greater than 50% which indicates that thetherapy is significantly effective.The attachment styles of 7 in 11 participants has transformed form insecure attachment styles into secure attachment.The results form the second research indicate that Anxiety Ratification Therapy(ART)can improve people’s state-anxiety and state-depression.It means that Anxiety Ratification Therapy(ART)is effective for negative emotions.Moreover,the results shows that Anxiety Ratification Therapy(ART)can changer insecure attachment into insecure attachment.In conclusion,the effectiveness of Anxiety Ratification Therapy(ART)has been proved.Both of the two researches together testify the way of Anxiety Ratification is working for anxious and depressive emotion.Anxiety Ratification Therapy is functional for all the three insecure attachment styles in anxiety and depression.Moreover,Anxiety Ratification Therapy can bring changes on the attachment styles.Obviously,it means that Anxiety Ratification Therapy is effective for insecure attachment styles.It also indirectly prove the efficacy of Anxiety Ratification Therapy.