The speaker

Dr. Patricia Crittenden (PhD in psychology) Patricia Crittenden has many years of experience as an academic and practitioner in the fields of child abuse, attachment theory, and family therapy. After receiving training with Mary Ainsworth, she was a faculty member in the psychology departments at the University of Virginia and the University of Miami. She has held visiting positions at the University of Helsinki and the University of Bologna, as well as at the Clark Institute of Psychiatry (Canada), San Diego State University (USA), and Edith Cowan University (Australia).

She is well known for having developed the Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM) of attachment and adaptation and is one of the founders of the International Association for the Study of Attachment (IASA). In 2004, she received a Career Achievement Award from the European Family Therapy Association. In addition, she has published more than 100 scientific papers and several books.