Similarities to certain attachment therapy practices have also provoked controversy. It has been suggested that the therapy seems to make use of age regression and holding techniques-features of attachment therapy not congruent with attachment concept. Becker-Weidman cites Daniel Hughes’s 1997 guide “Facilitating Developmental Attachment”, which comprises sections on using age regression and holding therapy, as a source doc for dyadic developmental psychotherapy. The advocacy group Advocates for Youngsters in Therapy include dyadic developmental psychotherapy of their listing of “attachment therapies by another name”, and proceed to record Hughes as a proponent of attachment therapy, citing statements of his that appear
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