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Attachment and Family Therapy

Attachment and Family Therapy the disorganised behaviour derived from a family background of trauma in post-war Europe. The son did not have direct experience of trauma, but the effect was transmitted across the generations by ‘frightened and frightening’ parenting. Crisis intervention for mother and her adolescent son was based on a shared understanding of the impact of past trauma on their relationship and emotional interactions. In contrast, Patricia Crittenden argues that children generally have ‘self-organised’ rather than disorganised responses to threat. In a key article, Crittenden provides an introduction to the Dynamic Maturational Model (DMM), which describes how children predict, prevent and respond to risk. Kasia Kozlowska uses the DMM to comprehend the strange behaviour of Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy abuse. In a fascinating case study, she explores how experiences of past danger had a dramatic impact on a mother’s and father’s appraisal of the health risks for one of their children. The parents believed they were desperately trying to protect their child against unrecognised dangers, but were in fact endangering her themselves. In a second article, Kasia discusses the usefulness of an attachment perspective with an unresolved child protection case. The case involved the extremely difficult decision to restore a child http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Wiley

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Wiley
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2006 Australian Association of Family Therapy
ISSN
0814-723X
eISSN
1467-8438
DOI
10.1002/j.1467-8438.2006.tb00698.x
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Abstract

the disorganised behaviour derived from a family background of trauma in post-war Europe. The son did not have direct experience of trauma, but the effect was transmitted across the generations by ‘frightened and frightening’ parenting. Crisis intervention for mother and her adolescent son was based on a shared understanding of the impact of past trauma on their relationship and emotional interactions. In contrast, Patricia Crittenden argues that children generally have ‘self-organised’ rather than disorganised responses to threat. In a key article, Crittenden provides an introduction to the Dynamic Maturational Model (DMM), which describes how children predict, prevent and respond to risk. Kasia Kozlowska uses the DMM to comprehend the strange behaviour of Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy abuse. In a fascinating case study, she explores how experiences of past danger had a dramatic impact on a mother’s and father’s appraisal of the health risks for one of their children. The parents believed they were desperately trying to protect their child against unrecognised dangers, but were in fact endangering her themselves. In a second article, Kasia discusses the usefulness of an attachment perspective with an unresolved child protection case. The case involved the extremely difficult decision to restore a child

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy – Wiley

Published: Jun 1, 2006

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