Counselors attempt to conceptualize clients presenting with complex problems to help them improve their lives and facilitate improved problem solving skills. To do this the counselor must understand how different aspects of an individual's personality interact with the environment to make the individual who he or she is. Attachment styles have been shown to be central to the formation of a person's personality. Ideas about attachment in infants and children were established in the 1960s by Bowlby and were later developed from the ideas of researchers such as Ainsworth and Thompson. Through this research the basis of attachment, attachment styles, and attachment outcomes in children have been documented and well understood. Slightly less understood, however, is how attachments formed as children translate into life and attachments as adults. This work seeks to explore research on adult attachment, including the difference between infant and adult attachment patterns, global trends, stability across the lifespan, and adult issues associated with maladaptive attachment patterns, reconnecting this research into the consultancy profession. in general. Infant Models and Adult Models Mary Ainsworth has established four models of attachment through her qualitative research with children on the topic; models are secure, anxious-resistant, anxious-avoidant, and disorganized (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978). The disorganized style was added through subsequent research and is not always used in research, as it is considered a combination of more than one style. The Adult Attachment Styles Model takes information gleaned from Bowlby's work and combines...... half of paper ...... Erry, E., & Chailman, R. (2013). Investigating the relationship between selfobject needs and adult attachment orientations. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 30(2), 247-263. Ponizovsky, A. M., Levov, K., Schultz, Y., & Radomislensky, I. (2011). Attachment insecurity and psychological resources associated with adjustment disorders. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 81(2), 265-276. van Ijzendoorn, M. H., & Sagi-Schwartz, A. (2008). Cross-cultural attachment models: universal and contextual dimensions. In J. Cassidy, & P. ​​R. Shaver (Eds.), Theory, research, and clinical applications (pp. 880-905). New York: Guilford Press. Wei, M., Russell, D. W., Mallinckrodt, B., & Zakalik, R. A. (2004). Cultural equivalence of adult attachment among four ethnic groups: Factor structure, structured means, and associations with negative mood. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 51, 408-417.