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Attachment Status and Family Functioning
Attachment status also affects family functioning. Family system’s theory outlines 3 types of family functioning:
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Adaptive-which is described as mutually sensitive, openly communicative and supportive, while open to each other’s autonomy
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Disengaged/Avoidant-which can be under-involved, angry and insensitive
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Enmeshed/Anxious-which is described as over-involved, intrusive, disrespectful of appropriate autonomy and boundaries.
Marion Fallding, May 2005