PPT Slide
Secure Base Script Content (Adult Attachment Narratives)
Once again, we broadly define a prototypic secure script as one in which the secure base (mom/partner) helps the individual (character in story) deal with some distress and helps to get things back to normal. In more positive scenarios, the goal of the secure base is to facilitate exploration, promoting positive experiences. Stories organized around a secure base script will have:
1) the secure base helping to select and implement strategies for getting things back to normal and defusing the emotional distress, when that is possible, or avoiding distress altogether by facilitating transitions to other activities (for a baby or child) and providing explanatory frameworks to help understand the situation (for young child)
2) the secure base reconfiguring the person’s representation to focus on more positive aspects, thereby diffusing the negative emotion. This often involves pointing out the “bright” side of a situation, e.g., we’ll certainly talk about this trip for years to come.