Applying the Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation in criminal justice interventions

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21497763
AutoresClark Baim (0000-0001-5112-8184, Change Point Ltd, UK, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen67
Número1
Páginas26-46
Fecha de publicación2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaProbation Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0264-5505 • E-ISSN: 1741-3079
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0264550519900236
OpenAlexW3001707888
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas26

This article describes how contemporary attachment theory can support accurate assessment and effective intervention in criminal justice contexts. I offer an introduction to Crittenden’s Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM) of Attachment and Adaptation and explain why this well-evidenced model is especially relevant to criminal justice interventions. The DMM is a biopsychosocial model, informed by neurodevelopmental research, and as such it offers a developmental understanding of the wide range of adaptations used by people who are endangered or endangering to others. It is a strengths-based, non-labelling and non-pathologising model which conceptualises adaptations to danger as self-protective strategies that promote survival in their original context, but which may later lead to problematic, dangerous, or self-defeating behaviour

Biology · Biopsychosocial model · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Political science · Psychological intervention · Psychotherapist · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child Welfare and Adoption · Law · Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Psychology