| Dr Patricia Crittenden |  |
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| Attachment and Adaptation | |||
| Dates: | 21 – 23 May and 26 – 27 June 2008 | ||
| Time: | 10.00am – 5.00pm | ||
| Venue: | TBC, Central London | ||
| Cost: | £550.00 | ||
| Patricia M. Crittenden is well known as an innovator in attachment theory and research. She studied under Mary. D. Ainsworth, John Bowlby and E. Mavis Hetherington. Among her many awards and recognitions is a career achievement award for “Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Child and Family Development” from the European Family Therapy Association in 2004. Her forthcoming works include a book written with Rudi Dallos, All in the Family, that integrates family systems and attachment theories. | |||
| The Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment | |||
| This 5-day course introduces the Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM) of attachment and ties it to risk assessment and treatment. The DMM differs from the usual ABC plus “disorganization” model of attachment by (1) focusing on differences within the risk group, (2) highlighting a strengths approach to working with parents and children at risk, and (3) presuming that maturation and development increase individuals’ potential for adaptation. | |||
| The course describes an array of patterns of attachment relationships and strategies for self-protection. The course focuses on development from infancy to adulthood (including old age). It emphasizes the process of adaptation and those developmental pathways that carry risk for maladaptation and dysfunction. At each age, the approaches to prevention and treatment are considered. | |||
| The model used is Crittenden’s expansion of the Bowlby-Ainsworth model to ages beyond infancy, i.e., the Dynamic-Maturational Model of attachment relationships. The DMM is particularly relevant to individuals who are in at-risk situations, have been exposed to danger, display disturbed or maladaptive behaviour, or are diagnosed as having a psychiatric disorder. The course is also relevant to longitudinal approaches to attachment, to the development of emotional and behavioural disorder, and to cross-generational issues. A particular emphasis in the course is cultural infl uences on the distribution of the patterns. | |||
| The course is structured developmentally and consists of lectures with slides, videotapes, and interview transcripts to demonstrate the patterns and principles of development. A set of readings and exercises, tied to each day’s material, are offered. In addition, an introduction is given to each of the assessments of pattern of attachment that use the dynamic-maturational method. These include the CARE-Index (infancy from birth to 24 months), the Ainsworth Strange Situation (11-15 months), the Pre-school Assessment of Attachment (21 months - 5 years), the School-age Assessment of Attachment (6-13 years), Family Drawings (4-13 years), Transition to Adulthood Attachment Interview (16-25 years), and the Adult Attachment Interview (25 years and older). | |||
| Day 1: | |||
| AM | Evolution, danger and brain | PM | CARE-Index videotapes |
| Infancy | Cultural influences | ||
| Treatment implications | |||
| Day 2: | |||
| AM | The Ainsworth patterns of attachment | PM | Pre-school development and the dynamic-maturational expansion of the Ainsworth model |
| Ainsworth Infant Strange Situation (SSP) videotapes | The organisation of the coercive strategy and compulsive sub patterns | ||
| Cross-generational transformations | |||
| Treatment implications in infancy and the pre-school years | |||
| Day 3: | |||
| AM | Pre-school Assessment of Attachment (PAA) videotapes | PM | School-age development and the organisation of obsessive and deceptive strategies |
| Family drawings | |||
| School-age Assessment of Attachment (SAA) | |||
| Treatment implications from 6 years to puberty | |||
| Day 4: | |||
| AM | Adolescent development and the integration of sexuality with attachment | Development in adulthood including becoming an attachment figure to one’s spouse, children and parents | |
| Transition to Adulthood Attachment Interview (TAAI) | Adult Attachment Interviews (AAI) transcript with corresponding videotape | ||
| Treatment in adolescence and the transition to adulthood | adulthood Treatment in a marital and familial context | ||
| Day 5: | |||
| AM | An overview of adult psychopathology | PM | A summation and theoretical perspective on attachment-informed treatment |
| FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO BOOK A PLACE PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE www.ift.org.uk | |||
| Please bring this course to the attention of your multi-disciplinary colleagues as the course is likely to appeal to other disciplines as well as systemic. | |||
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