Raising Parents: Attachment, Representation, and Treatment

by Patricia McKinsey Crittenden

Helping troubled parents to raise their children adequately is of crucial importance for parents, their children and society at large. Distressed parents have themselves often been endangered and, as a consequence, sometimes endanger their children either through maltreatment or through the effects of parental psychiatric disorder.
Raising Parents explains how that happens and clusters parents in terms of the psychological processes that result in maladaptive childrearing. The book then delineates DMM Integrative Treatment in terms of assessment, formulation, and treatment. New formulations are offered for problems that have resisted treatment and cases demonstrate how the ideas can be applied in real treatment settings. The book closes with 10 suggestions for improving professionals’ responses to troubled families and endangered children.
This edition of Raising Parents introduces DMM Integrative Treatment and demonstrates how to use it with vulnerable families. DMM Integrative Treatment is an interpersonal process and this book will be essential reading for clinicians from all disciplines, including psychiatry and psychology, social work, nursing and all types of psychotherapy.

Genres: Parenting, Psychology

364 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2008

Reviews

[Manuel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Para mí de lo mejor que se ha escrito en apego, una autora imprescindible para poder estudiar con profundidad sobre este tema

[Justin Souter · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a first rate book which expands the 4-faceted attachment framework c/o Mary Ainsworth and Mary Main. I found it informative because it provides well-founded descriptions of personality types and coping strategies.

I highly recommend Patricia Crittenden's work to understand good, bad, and dangerous behaviour and parenting styles - and their impact - and what we can and should do about them.

N.b. I read the second version. I used the listing of the first version, as the second isn't referenced here accurately.

[Alessandro Bichi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfetto