Patricia McKinsey Crittenden Author & Editor

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.Edited and with an introduction and chapter commentaries by: Dr Andrea Landini, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist (Italy); Dr. Crittenden's collaborator and co-author. Dr Martha Hart, PhD., Research Project Co-ordinator, University of Calgary, Alberta Children's Hospital, and IASA Board Member. Clark Baim, M. Ed., BPA, UKCP, Psychotherapist focusing on clinical work with offenders (UK and USA). Clark Baim was also one of the editors of the successful Waterside Press Publication, The Geese Theatre Handbook: Drama with Offenders and People at Risk (2002). Sophie Landa, Trainee Clinical Psychologist (UK).