Danger, Development and Adaptation: Seminal Papers on the Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation - Softcover

Crittenden, Patricia McKinsey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190997627X ISBN 13: 9781909976276

Publisher: Waterside Press, 2015

Synopsis

A collection of writings by leading developmental psychologist Patricia M Crittenden, highlighting her vast contribution to attachment theory and research. It includes her observation of compulsive A, coercive C, and combined A/C patterns; application of attachment theory to child maltreatment, parent and child mental illness, and criminality; and the Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM) of Attachment and Adaptation.Includes an introduction to the Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation (DMM) and shows the history of that model. Contains an introduction and commentaries and published in conjunction with the International Association for the Study of Attachment (IASA).

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About the Author

Patricia McKinsey Crittenden PhD is a developmental psychopathologist who worked with Mary Ainsworth to develop the DMM. She pioneered video-feedback with maltreating mothers in the early-1970s, ran a family support centre, trained as a behavioural and family systems therapist, was Director of the Miami Child Protection Team, and has been a family court consultant. In 2004, she received a European Family Therapy Association Career Achievement Award. She has published more than 100 empirical papers and chapters. Her books include: Raising Parents: Attachment, Representation, and Treatment (2015); Attachment and Family Systems Therapy (2014); and Assessing Adult Attachment: A Dynamic-Maturational Model (2011) (the final two as co-author).

Edition details

• Publisher: Waterside Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190997627X
• ISBN 13: 9781909976276
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592
• Editor: Landini Andrea, Hart Martha, Baim Clark, Landa Sophie