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Treating Attachment & Self-Protective Strategies
“If it protects you, it’s the right strategy.” – Dr Patricia Crittenden, creator of the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment & Adaptation (DMM) using culture and context.
LOOKING FOR THE SLIDES?
DOWNLOAD THE PDF HERE: Rudiments-of-the-DMM-PDF VERSION
OR THE POWERPOINT VERSION HERE: Rudiments of the DMM Powerpoint version
Or if you have great eyesight 🙂 you can view them here.
Are you ready to move from describing injured developmental pathways and symptoms – to addressing how to heal from disrupted development? We are on the case! In this episode co-host Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP discusses exactly that with Dr. Patrica Crittenden, founder of the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment & Adaption (DMM) using culture and context to understand, decode and heal early relational injuries.
Their conversation was deep and wide, thus will be published in two sections. In today’s episode, TU96, Dr. Crittenden focuses on wide-reaching cultural aspects of development, safety and danger. She uses decades of observations, assessment, research and clinical work to describe her take on what she refers to as the American Attachment researchers and elucidates how her model is similar and where and why it differs.
Dr. Crittenden’s focus on applying this rich research clinically aligns perfectly with the mission of this podcast. Whether you are a clinician, foster parent, educator or are interested for your own personal reasons, you will find her perspective fresh and thought-provoking!
Please see the PACKED resources and show notes below!
Who is Patricia Crittenden and why do want to know her….
Dr. Mary Ainsworth
Dr. Crittenden studied under Mary. D. Ainsworth from 1978 until 1983, when she received her Ph.D. as a psychologist in the Social Ecology and Development Program at the University of Virginia.
In addition to Mary Ainsworth’s constant guidance and support, her psychology master’s thesis on the CARE-Index, was developed in consultation with John Bowlby and her family systems research, on patterns of family functioning in maltreating families, was accomplished with guidance from E. Mavis Hetherington.
John Bowbly
Dr. Crittenden has served on the Faculties of Psychology at the Universities of Virginia and Miami and held visiting professorships at the Universities of Helsinki (Finland) and Bologna (Italy) as well as San Diego State University (USA) and Edith Cowan University (Australia).
In 1992 she received a Senior Post-doctoral Fellowship, with a focus on child sexual abuse and the development of individual differences in human sexuality, at the Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire. In 1993-4 she was awarded the Beverley Professorship at the Clark Institute of Psychiatry (Canada).
In the last two decades, Dr. Patricia Crittenden has worked cross-culturally as a developmental psychopathologist developing the Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM) of attachment and adaptation, along with a developmentally attuned, life-span set of procedures for assessing self-protective strategies. She has received a career achievement award for “Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Child and Family Development” from the European Family Therapy Association in Berlin.
Currently, Dr. Crittenden’s work is focused on preventive and culture- sensitive applications of the DMM to mental health treatment, child protection, and criminal rehabilitation.
Before we begin:
**Note: We know the colors may be a bit confusing, but it is important to us that you receive information as Dr Crittenden has published it. It is by happenstance that our colors are the same (with the exception of tie dye), but they represent different thinking and behavioral patterns. When we refer to color in the episodes and in the show notes, we are referring to the colors we have historically used on the TU podcast and the letters and self-protective strategies of the DMM. This is only in order to maintain consistency and make the information more easily understood by our listeners. However, the colors as shown in the slides and as listed above, are the way Dr Crittenden uses them in her fantastic work!
Therapist Uncensored Episode 96 Shownotes:
“We crave information about danger because we live so safely, and we know there has to be danger out there and our brains are evolved to hunt for it.” – Andrea Claussen, student of Crittenden
What patterns are emerging culturally?
What is the DMM about?
Crittenden’s work is about “all the things that we do when we’re in danger and how stunningly competent even our infants are at figuring out what you need to do to stay safe here, in this family where I was born, with these parents who live in this culture facing these problems right now and these other problems that the culture knows about historically.”
Infants:
The socioeconomic biases that predict security in the U.S. are not necessarily what is going to predict safety in the DMM.
Attachment From Bowlby to Crittenden:
The Brain
Attachment theory in general:
The Differences Between the DMM and American Attachment
Click HERE to download the slides (these will be discussed in detail in Part 2, Ep 97, but you are welcome to check them out here!)
American attachment theory
DMM model
Self-protective strategies:
American attachment theory assumes a normative, safe environment.
DMM says globally, it is not always safe. A more typical environment has danger in it, and you need to adapt to that.
We need attachment relationships that will protect us in dangerous circumstances.
Find Episode 97, Part Two of this discussion, here.
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Resources:
Rudiments-of-the-DMM-PDF VERSION
Raising Parents Attachment Representations and Treatment (2008) by Patricia Crittenden
The Organization of Attachment Relationships Maturation, Culture & Context (2000) by Patricia Crittenden
“The secret lives of children” 2017, in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry by Patricia Crittenden
“Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation – theory and practice” PDF Ed. Ari Hautamaki
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Treating Attachment & Self-Protective Strategies
“If it protects you, it’s the right strategy.” – Dr Patricia Crittenden, creator of the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment & Adaptation (DMM) using culture and context.
LOOKING FOR THE SLIDES?
DOWNLOAD THE PDF HERE: Rudiments-of-the-DMM-PDF VERSION
OR THE POWERPOINT VERSION HERE: Rudiments of the DMM Powerpoint version
Or if you have great eyesight 🙂 you can view them here.
Are you ready to move from describing injured developmental pathways and symptoms – to addressing how to heal from disrupted development? We are on the case! In this episode co-host Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP discusses exactly that with Dr. Patrica Crittenden, founder of the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment & Adaption (DMM) using culture and context to understand, decode and heal early relational injuries.
Their conversation was deep and wide, thus will be published in two sections. In today’s episode, TU96, Dr. Crittenden focuses on wide-reaching cultural aspects of development, safety and danger. She uses decades of observations, assessment, research and clinical work to describe her take on what she refers to as the American Attachment researchers and elucidates how her model is similar and where and why it differs.
Dr. Crittenden’s focus on applying this rich research clinically aligns perfectly with the mission of this podcast. Whether you are a clinician, foster parent, educator or are interested for your own personal reasons, you will find her perspective fresh and thought-provoking!
Please see the PACKED resources and show notes below!
Who is Patricia Crittenden and why do want to know her….
Dr. Mary Ainsworth
Dr. Crittenden studied under Mary. D. Ainsworth from 1978 until 1983, when she received her Ph.D. as a psychologist in the Social Ecology and Development Program at the University of Virginia.
In addition to Mary Ainsworth’s constant guidance and support, her psychology master’s thesis on the CARE-Index, was developed in consultation with John Bowlby and her family systems research, on patterns of family functioning in maltreating families, was accomplished with guidance from E. Mavis Hetherington.
John Bowbly
Dr. Crittenden has served on the Faculties of Psychology at the Universities of Virginia and Miami and held visiting professorships at the Universities of Helsinki (Finland) and Bologna (Italy) as well as San Diego State University (USA) and Edith Cowan University (Australia).
In 1992 she received a Senior Post-doctoral Fellowship, with a focus on child sexual abuse and the development of individual differences in human sexuality, at the Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire. In 1993-4 she was awarded the Beverley Professorship at the Clark Institute of Psychiatry (Canada).
In the last two decades, Dr. Patricia Crittenden has worked cross-culturally as a developmental psychopathologist developing the Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM) of attachment and adaptation, along with a developmentally attuned, life-span set of procedures for assessing self-protective strategies. She has received a career achievement award for “Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Child and Family Development” from the European Family Therapy Association in Berlin.
Currently, Dr. Crittenden’s work is focused on preventive and culture- sensitive applications of the DMM to mental health treatment, child protection, and criminal rehabilitation.
Before we begin:
**Note: We know the colors may be a bit confusing, but it is important to us that you receive information as Dr Crittenden has published it. It is by happenstance that our colors are the same (with the exception of tie dye), but they represent different thinking and behavioral patterns. When we refer to color in the episodes and in the show notes, we are referring to the colors we have historically used on the TU podcast and the letters and self-protective strategies of the DMM. This is only in order to maintain consistency and make the information more easily understood by our listeners. However, the colors as shown in the slides and as listed above, are the way Dr Crittenden uses them in her fantastic work!
Therapist Uncensored Episode 96 Shownotes:
“We crave information about danger because we live so safely, and we know there has to be danger out there and our brains are evolved to hunt for it.” – Andrea Claussen, student of Crittenden
What patterns are emerging culturally?
What is the DMM about?
Crittenden’s work is about “all the things that we do when we’re in danger and how stunningly competent even our infants are at figuring out what you need to do to stay safe here, in this family where I was born, with these parents who live in this culture facing these problems right now and these other problems that the culture knows about historically.”
Infants:
The socioeconomic biases that predict security in the U.S. are not necessarily what is going to predict safety in the DMM.
Attachment From Bowlby to Crittenden:
The Brain
Attachment theory in general:
The Differences Between the DMM and American Attachment
Click HERE to download the slides (these will be discussed in detail in Part 2, Ep 97, but you are welcome to check them out here!)
American attachment theory
DMM model
Self-protective strategies:
American attachment theory assumes a normative, safe environment.
DMM says globally, it is not always safe. A more typical environment has danger in it, and you need to adapt to that.
We need attachment relationships that will protect us in dangerous circumstances.
Find Episode 97, Part Two of this discussion, here.
Gain private access, more in-depth episodes and exclusive content with us through Patreon.
Become a Super Neuronerd, a Gold Neuronerd or an Out and Proud PLATINUM NEURONERD today!
Join our exclusive community of Therapist Uncensored Neuronerds for just $5 a month!
Help us create a ripple of security by sharing the science of relationships around the globe!
NEURONERDS UNITE! Click here to sign up.
Resources:
Rudiments-of-the-DMM-PDF VERSION
Raising Parents Attachment Representations and Treatment (2008) by Patricia Crittenden
The Organization of Attachment Relationships Maturation, Culture & Context (2000) by Patricia Crittenden
“The secret lives of children” 2017, in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry by Patricia Crittenden
“Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation – theory and practice” PDF Ed. Ari Hautamaki
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