Lisa Dion > Quotes

“Do you know what was discovered through the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; PESI, 2012) as the best predictor of a child’s level of attachment security with their caregiver? The answer may surprise you. The biggest predictor was how the adults were able to make sense of their own lives. It turns out that it wasn’t what had happened to the adults but how the adults gave meaning to what they had been through that allowed them to tell a coherent and cohesive story of their pasts and how these experiences helped shape them into who they became. The adults who were securely attached themselves shared both positive and negative aspects of the events in their lives and how these influenced their developments and life journeys (Siegel, 1999).”
― Lisa Dion, Aggression in Play Therapy: A Neurobiological Approach for Integrating Intensity