Course Overview
*A post test must be taken and passed in order to receive CE credit. Participants may retake the post test a maximum of 3 times to receive a passing score. A qualifying passing score is 80% or above.
Secure attachments in childhood are the cornerstone of lasting, fulfilling relationships (Lancer 2024). If a safe bond is never formed with a primary caretaker during childhood, it may never form (Winston 2016). Currently, fewer people can form healthy attachments and experience addictive and traumatic bonds instead (Raypole 2023).
Until a person understands healthy love and its components, they are likely to be stuck in cycles of dysfunctional and addictive relationships. Like any other addiction, love addiction has signs and symptoms (Lancer 2022). To break the cycle, we must first identify those symptoms and then provide alternative behaviors. The goal of therapy is to move away from dysfunctional patterns of relating and toward actions that support good self-esteem, healthy intimacy, and secure relationships.
The therapist has a key role in helping the patient break this cycle by helping them identify the signs of an addictive relationship (Travers 2024) and facilitating the opportunity for the patient to form a healthy attachment with the therapist. Once the patient can learn how to work through conflicts, feel safe, and negotiate wants and needs with the therapist, then they have transcended limitations imposed during childhood and can transfer this learning toward other relationships.
This webinar will identify some of the signs of love addiction, and the causes, and provide a contrast between healthy love and addictive relationships.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will identify signs, symptoms, and causes of love addiction.
- Participants will identify culturally induced components of love addiction.
- Participants will use tools provided for patients to “self-assess” and tools to contrast healthy and addictive relationships.
Course Outline
| Module | Topic |
|---|---|
| SECTION 1 | Identifying the components of a secure parental/child attachment - Powerpoint and lecture |
| SECTION 2 | Recognizing the Consequences of a Insecure Attachments and Reenactments - Powerpoint and lecture |
| SECTION 3 | Identifying the Differences Between Love Addiction and Healthy Love - Powerpoints and lecture |
| SECTION 4 | Recognizing the Role of the Therapist in Reparation and Reparenting As a Guide and Support in Building Healthy Self-Esteem - Powerpoints and lecture |
| SECTION 5 | Discussion and Post Test - The students will take the test and be provided the opportunity to review the materials. |
Instructor Bio
Course Bibliography
Lancer, D. (2020 May 2). Healthy vs. Addiction: 10 Signs of Addictive Love. Psychology Today. \https://www.psychologytoday.com/nz/blog/toxic-relationships/202005/healthy-love-vs-addiction-10-signs-addictive-love
McCleod, S. and Evans, O. (2024 January 24). Secure Attachment Style Relationships and How to Form. Simply Psychology. https://www.simplypsychology.org/secure-attachment.html
Mutiwasekwa, S. (2021 May 11). How Different Attachment Styles Affect Relationships. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-upside-things/202105/how-different-attachment-styles-affect-relationships
Neuharth, D. (2018 August 12). 30 Differences Between Love and Addiction. Psyche Central. Retrieved June 10, 2024, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/love-matters/2018/08/is-it-love-or-love-addiction#1
Raypole, C. and Rush, T. (2023 June 12). How to Recognize and Break Traumatic Bonds. Healthline. https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/trauma-bonding
Travers, M. (2024 February 18) A Psychologist Explains the Cycle of ‘Love Addiction.’ Forbes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2024/02/18/a-psychologist-explains-the-cycle-of-love-addiction/
Winston, R. and Chicot, R. The Importance of Early Bonding on the Long-Term Mental Health and Resilience of Children. London J Prim Care (Abingdon).2016 Feb 24;8(1):12-14.doi: 10.1080/17571472.2015.1133012. Retrieved June 5, 2024, from
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28250823/
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Cognitive Behavior Institute, #1771, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 06/30/2022-06/30/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 clinical continuing education credits.
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