About EABT
A ground-breaking therapy model, gaining notoriety in the behavioral health field for quickly getting to the root of attachment issues.
Based on Attachment Theory, (EABT) emphasizes how our attachment styles interact with our unhealthy behaviors and tendencies. Its central view is that when a person experiences attachment stressors it can exacerbate thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that increase unhealthy outcomes. A counselor using EABT helps a client to modify these stressors by gaining understanding of attachment triggers and helping to change the responses to them. The counselor also magnifies this therapeutic work by helping the client to create healthier emotional connections.
EABT demonstrated a 11% higher completion of treatment than comparable modalities
Doug Smith
Doug Smith has 20 years of experience working in behavioral health services, including serving as a direct clinician, Clinical Director and Director of Clinical Development. He has a BS in Psychology from Eastern Oregon University and is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor Level II. Doug has innovated many modern approaches to treatment services, including developing new patient-centered treatment models. He developed the Emotional Attachment Behavioral Therapy (EABT) model and speaks nationally to professionals in the field about its positive outcomes. Doug is the recipient of the Oregon Association of Addiction Professional’s 2023 Innovator of the Year Award as well as the 2018 Addiction Professional of the Year Community Service Award.
Primary Objectives
Understanding Attachment Styles - Learning more about your attachment styles and your personal attachment characteristics.
Awareness of Core Attachment Stressors - Identifying your core attachment stressors and where they stem from in your life.
Identifying Attachment Triggers - Learning your physical, emotional, and mental symptoms of trigger activation for early onset intervention.
Cultivating Coping Skills - Identifying and practicing new coping skills to improve ability for healthy responses.
Improving Self-Esteem - Gaining awareness of your negative core beliefs connected to your attachment patterns and working to change them.
Inter-Generational Attachment Patterns - Learning how attachment patterns have been passed down through your family and how to begin to break the cycle.
Developing Secure Attachments - Increasing the levels of secure attachment towards yourself and others to improve relationships.
Study for Emotional Attachment Behavioral Therapy (EABT).
Over a 12 month period, a total of over 700 clients were split between EABT groups and control groups using other evidence based practices
11% higher completion of treatment percentage
13% higher transition to the next level of care rate
46% lower Atypical Discharge rate
18% higher completion rate with history of trauma
21% higher completion rate ages 25 and under
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