Love Me Don’t Leave Me: Addressing Abandonment Issues in Therapy

Counselor Toolbox Podcast with DocSnipes

AllCEUs Counseling CEUs

Social Sciences, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Science, Education

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

People need other people. Fear of abandonment is a survival response that is present from birth. In childhood, abandonment can be a life or death situation. Adults with fear of abandonment often have not identified the roots of their fears so that they can better understand and choose helpful reactions as adults, for whom abandonment is unpleasant, but often not a life or death situation. This podcast explores the roots of abandonment and proposes some techniques to help clients challenge those long held beliefs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.7	Welcome to the presentation, everybody.
0:46.7	Today we're going to be talking about love me, don't leave me, addressing fears of abandonment.
0:50.9	This is counselor toolbox, bringing you practical tools for recovery from mental health and addiction issues.
0:52.3	This episode was pre-recorded as part of a live continuing education webinar.
0:56.9	CEOs are available on demand for this presentation through our sponsor, AllCEUs.
1:01.7	Go to allCEUs.com slash counselor toolbox to register.
1:05.7	So what we're going to try to get out of this presentation is a broad overview of the way that we can help clients increase
1:12.5	awareness of their story, including beliefs about behavioral reactions to situations that trigger their
1:18.3	fear of abandonment. We'll do this by helping them learn about what fear of abandonment is,
1:23.9	which means we've got to learn about it, we will explore the concept of schemas or
1:28.5	core beliefs and examine common traps in thinking, reacting, and in the relationships that
1:35.0	we create, not only with others, but with ourselves.
1:38.6	And we will help clients learn the skills necessary to accept their past as part of their
1:43.9	story and how to
1:45.3	acknowledge that their past does not have to continue to negatively impact them in the
1:49.7	present. So how does abandonment impact recovery? Regardless of whether you're talking about
1:55.5	addiction or depression or anxiety, abandonment issues can be there, and they're often there in one way
2:02.9	or another.
2:03.9	So we need to be able to address this and figure out exactly what it is that's causing
2:08.7	dysfunctional relationships and what it is that triggers this fear inside our particular
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