The long-awaited Adult Attachment Interview Trainers Issue!

This is the first of three issues of the DMM News dedicated to the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)! In these long-awaited special editions, the applications of the AAI based on the Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM-AAI) in different fields (clinical, research, forensic) are presented by several of our AAI trainers. The three articles of this issue are centered on parents, their self-protective needs, and how knowledge about these issues may be helpful in court proceedings and treatment planning. Andrea Landini, Rebecca Carr-Hopkins and Alison Dunkerly describe the assessment of parents in family court proceedings to decide whether and how parents will be allowed to raise their children. They also highlight parental self-protective needs and resources, rather than focusing solely on parental limitations. Treatment plans are outlined in which parental self-protective needs, their influence, and sometimes interference in their relation to their children become a prominent focus. At the end of this newsletter, there is a list of upcoming 2013 DMM Courses. If – after reading – you want to learn more, you can also check The Family Relationship Institute website www.familyrelationsinstitute.org. The next training for the DMM-AAI will take place at the Tavistock Center, London (Jun. 4-9, Oct. 8-13 and Nov. 18-23, 2013). The Trainer is Andrea Landini (for information and to register contact: [email protected]).