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Procedures for Assessing Attachment in Infants, Children and Adults: The Dynamic Maturation Model (DMM) Approach (CPD99)

This course, of 8 evening sessions, will lead you through how the measures were devised, their application and clinical and research uses.

Whilst the course will not enable participants to administer or code any of the instruments, they will gain an understanding of the theory behind their design and how this relates to the DMM model.

The evenings will also serve as an introductory forum to the conceptual model of the DMM of attachment and adaptation, developed by Dr Crittenden, and illustrate its applicability to a range of different clinical approaches including education, psychology, child psychotherapy, research, assessment within the family courts, and treatment.

The course will be of interest and relevance to anyone working with infants, children, young  people or adults in prevention, clinical or forensic settings, and relevant to those in statutory, health, charitable or community settings.

Programme

Lectures will take place on the following Wednesday evenings from 6.00 - 8.00pm.

25 January 2012
Infants: the building blocks of attachment; affect regulation; observation using the CARE-Index

1 February 2012
Pre-school Children: the Strange Situation Procedure

8 February 2012
Exploration and the development of mentalising: Narrative stems with children aged 3 to 6 years

15 February 2012
Child attachment interviews and the use of discourse analysis

7 March 2012
The Adult Attachment Interview

14 March 2012
Neuroscience and attachment: available measures and some of the results

21 March 2012
PTSD/Developmental Trauma Disorder Trauma and loss in children and adults

28 March 2012
Modifiers of attachment strategies: Depression, disorientation, intrusions of forbidden feelings and re-organisation

Fee

The fee is £370, payable in advance. Please book using the attached application form or by contacting us on 020 8938 2285.

Course Facilitators

Steve Farnfield is a social worker and play therapist and has a PhD from the Tavistock Clinic and University of East London in the assessment of attachment of school years children in care. He is trained in all the Dynamic Maturational Model (DMM) attachment procedures developed by Dr Patricia Crittenden and is a founder member of the International Association for the Study of Attachment (IASA). He has over 30 years of practice experience in work with children and families in a wide range of settings.

Victoria Lidchi is a consultant psychologist and systemic therapist, working at the Monroe Family Assessment Service with families with complex child protection  concerns and where there are serious problems in terms of safety and  stability. Victoria is currently on the board and chair of the training committee of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) and an ad Hoc board member for the International Association for the Study of Attachment (IASA). She has been trained in most of the Dynamic Maturational Model (DMM) attachment  procedures developed by Dr Patricia Crittenden.

Further Information

Please contact us on 020 8938 2285 or events@tavi-port.ac.uk