ABSTRACT
McCluskey's hypothesis is: If careseeking is effectively regulated through an interaction with an exploratory caregiver this can then promote the exploratory system in that person. The chapter explores whether leaders, managers and employees could become interested in the underlying dynamics of the way in which they behave towards other people when they are under stress or frightened. According to attachment theory, experiences of careseeking and caregiving have their roots in infancy and shape expectations and responses to careseeking and caregiving in adult life. Together Heard, Lake and McCluskey then explored the idea of a restorative process to achieve wellbeing and created an approximation of the dynamic of the careseeking/caregiving relationship in diagrammatic form. They concluded that central to the restorative process working to an optimum level was the presence of an effective responsive and exploratory caregiver. McCluskey recognised that the offer to treat in the interaction between therapist and clients aroused the dynamics of attachment.
