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• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• PART 1 Yesterday’s children Today’s mothers and fathers
• 1 Cherishing parents
• Helping professionals to help parents
• The Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation
• DMM Integrative Treatment
• Notes
• 2 A primer of DMM theory: twelve crucial constructs
• The context of life: from genes to culture
• Developmental possibilities: diversity and change
• Treatment of maladaptation
• Conclusions
• Important concepts and terms
• PART 2 Growing up
• 3 Early childhood: learning to be safe at home
• Protection, danger, and attachment figures
• Infancy (birth to 1–2 years)
• Preschool years (2–5 years of age): the preoperational shift and coy behavior
• Important concepts and terms
• Note
• 4 Going to school: coping with a complex world
• School age (approximately 6–12 years)
• Issues for children using a compulsive Type A strategy
• Issues for children using a coercive Type C strategy
• Issues for children using a Type A/C strategy
• Adolescence (puberty–16 years)
• Important concepts and terms
• 5 Becoming an adult: loving and leaving
• Transition to adulthood (16–25 years)
• Yesterday’s children
• Important concepts and terms
• PART 3 Information processing
• 6 Remembering the future: the process of mental representation
• Seven transformations of information
• Dispositional representations (DRs)
• Selection of a dispositional representation upon which to act
• Conclusions
• Important concepts and terms
• Notes
• 7 How do parents affect children’s representations?
• Representation and protective strategies
• Reorganization, trauma, depression, disorientation, and intrusions of forbidden negative affect
• How does perception of danger affect behavior?
• How do parents’ strategies affect children’s strategies?
• Important concepts and terms
• 8 Representation and childrearing that endangers children
• Why parents behave as they do
• Interpersonal disorders in children
• Assessing transformations of information and DRs
• A hypothesis and questions for future research
• Conclusions
• Important concepts and terms
• PART 4 Parents’ dispositional representations
• 9 Cluster 1 – distortions of normal child-protective behavior: under-responding to children
• Inconsistency from mixed dispositional representations (DRs)
• Inconsistency from competing mother and father DRs
• Inconsistency from distraction
• Couples’ issues and inconsistency
• Conclusions about Cluster 1
• Outcomes
• Important concepts and terms
• Note
• 10 Cluster 2 – distortions of normal child-protective behavior: over-responding to children
• Fear of loss: impairments and imagined medical threats
• ear of children doing the wrong thing: punishment and child abuse
• Immigrant populations
• Outcomes for children
• Conclusions
• Important concepts and terms
• 11 Cluster 3 – distortions of perception: seeing yourself in your child
• Comfort me/you: paternal incest
• Give me sugar: spousification
• Oh, no! I can’t!: mother’s compulsive performance and postnatal depression
• Never again – the long reach of unresolved trauma
• Conclusions
• Important concepts and terms
• 12 Cluster 4 – obscured perceptions: the disappearing child
• Depression and insufficient caregiving
• Unpredictable and changing dangerous parental behavior
• Triangulating parental behavior
• Disoriented parental behavior
• Important concepts and terms
• 13 Cluster 5 – distortions that substitute erroneous information for accurate information: misconstruing children as being threatened
• Kate and the Cutters: a hard rock in search of balance
• Perceived on-going threat
• Child death
• Understanding Cluster 5
• Important concepts and terms
• 14 Cluster 6 – distortions that substitute deadly delusional information for accurate information: misconstruing the child as the threat
• A Type A example
• A Type C example
• Child homicide
• Understanding parents who intentionally kill their children
• Preventing child deaths
• Important concepts and terms
• Note
• PART 5 An integrative approach to treatment
• 15 DMM Integrative Treatment with families
• A rationale for DMM Integrative Treatment
• Beginning the process of DMM Integrative Treatment with parents
• Using attachment to promote the goals of therapy
• Adaptation
• Important concepts and terms
• Notes
• 16 When things fall apart
• Problems in treatment
• Alternatives to out-of-home placement
• IASA Family Attachment Court Protocol
• Foster care and out-of-home placement
• Research to learn what we do not now know
• Important concepts and terms
• 17 Assessment that is relevant to differential treatment
• What sort of assessment is needed?
• What we need to know before beginning treatment
• What is assessment?
• Assessing attachment and information processing
• Contraindications: avoiding the wrong treatment
• On-going assessment following formal assessment
• Important concepts and terms
• 18 Functional formulation and the plan for treatment
• Functional formulation
• The components of a functional formulation
• Constructing the functional family formulation
• The role of professionals
• Attachment, critical causes, and case planning
• Important concepts and terms
• 19 DMM Integrative Treatment: three cases
• Mild and transient dysfunction (normal parenting)
• Moderately severe dysfunction (Cluster 3)
• Severe parenting dysfunction (Cluster 5)
• Conclusions
• Important concepts and terms
• Notes
• 20 Do unto parents as you would have them do unto their children
• DMM Integrative Treatment
• Parenting, survival, and culture
• Ten ideas
• From survival through healing to living
• Important concepts and terms
• References
• Index