When It Is Used
Use it during adolescent-focused alliance work before caregiver preparation or future conjoint repair work.
Adolescent Alliance / Attachment Narrative
Adolescent Alliance / Attachment Narrative is an ABFT-aligned practitioner tool for work with an adolescent. Practitioners use it to understand attachment experiences that make caregiver engagement emotionally difficult and to identify repair targets grounded in the adolescent’s lived experience.
Open the sample narrative-to-repair map and review how reported experiences stay distinct from practitioner-formulated repair targets.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What It Captures
It captures adolescent-reported experiences, disappointments, unmet needs, barriers to caregiver engagement, repair targets, and alliance or feeling-understood observations.
Important Limits
It does not provide elicitation prompts, trauma-processing steps, diagnostic labels, severity ratings, or automated caregiver-preparation instructions.
Is this an adolescent intake form?
No. It is focused on attachment narrative and repair targets, not general intake, mood assessment, or trauma inventory.
Does the tool interpret the adolescent’s experiences automatically?
No. It organizes practitioner-entered material and keeps reported adolescent language distinct from practitioner formulation.
Can the adolescent complete it directly?
No separate adolescent product experience is required. The adolescent participates through therapeutic conversation.
What if repair targets are unclear?
The record can remain partial and mark targets as needing clarification.