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Published in association with the International Association for the Study of Attachment.Invaluable to psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, social workers, criminal justice professionals, mental health and child protection workers, counsellors, educators, and people in the helping professions generally. It is also relevant to people working in the fields of learning disabilities, older adults, fostering and adoption.Danger, Development and Adaptation is a collection of landmark journal articles and book chapters by developmental psychologist Patricia M Crittenden. This selection of writings highlights Crittenden's contribution to attachment theory and research, including her observation of the compulsive A, coercive C, and combined A/C patterns; the application of attachment theory to cases of child maltreatment, parent and child mental illness, and criminality; and the development of the Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM) of Attachment and Adaptation. The selected papers also serve as an introduction to the DMM, showing the history of research and clinical experience that informs the model.Patricia McKinsey Crittenden PhD is a developmental psychopathologist who worked with Mary Ainsworth at the University of Virginia to develop the DMM of Attachment and Adaptation.
She pioneered video-feedback with maltreating mothers in the early-1970s, ran a family support centre, trained as a behavioral and family systems therapist, was the Director of the Miami Child Protection Team, and has acted as a consultant to family courts in several countries. She has developed a life-span series of assessments of attachment and served on faculties in several countries. In 2004, she received a European Family Therapy Association Career Achievement Award. She has published more than 100 empirical papers and chapters, as well as several books including: Crittenden (2015), Raising Parents: Attachment, Representation, and Treatment; Crittenden, Dallos, Landini, & Kozlowska (2014), Attachment and Family Systems Therapy; and Crittenden & Landini (2011), Assessing Adult Attachment: A Dynamic-Maturational Model.
