Dr. Pat Crittenden and Dr. Andrea Landini will teach the Transition to Adulthood Attachment Interview (TAAI) for 16-25-year-olds this October in London. This is a rare training, offered once every five years (or so) and is being taught by two of the worlds experts in the ABC+DMM model of attachment. Two other highly experienced DMM experts will serve as course facilitators, Clark Baim, PhD and Rebecca Carr-Hopkins MSW. Space is limited. Prior training in the AAI is a pre-requisite. The 5-day course will be followed by a weekly practice transcript practice.
Training Details
- Dates: 5 days: London: Oct 8-12, 2019.
- Time: The course begins at 2pm on the first day and ends at 1pm on the last day. Otherwise, full days of work consisting of coding in the morning, feedback sessions (12pm-1pm), and class work in the afternoon (2pm-6pm).
- Location: Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane London, NW3 5BA United Kingdom
- Instructors: Patricia Crittenden, PhD and Andrea Landini, MD
- Facilitators: Clark Baim, PhD, and Rebecca Carr-Hopkins,
- Cost: $1,000 (USD), $1,400 after August 31, 2019.
- Web page (includes Google Map of the Tavistock Centre): https://familyrelationsinstitute.org/course/taai-london-uk/
This course uses the discourse analysis for the AAI, for normative and (mild) outpatient clinical applications, with a different interview (the TAAI) and modified classificatory guidelines suited to the transition to adulthood.
There is coding work following the course and a requirement to submit 2 transcribed TAAIs carried out by the course participant (1 normative and 1 mild clinical). This work must be completed to receive a certificate for administering the TAAI (for example, for court evaluations).
A didactic Advanced Clinical Course will be offered later for more serious clinical and forensic applications. A reliability test will follow that course.
Prerequisite: Course participants must have taken Adult Attachment Interview course, but reliability is not required.
Language: English, but the TAAI assignment may be completed in other languages
Cost: $1000 before August 31, 2019; $1400 beginning September 1, 2019
The registration fee covers the course, plus feedback on participant’s AAIs, practice transcripts following the course. Enrolment is not guaranteed until payment is made. Payment must be completed before the course is begun. All payments are nonrefundable. Invoicing and receipts involve extra charges.
Registration: Please contact Patricia M. Crittenden, PhD (crittenden@patcrittenden.com) regarding registration. There is a limited number of participants. The course may be cancelled if fewer than six people register; please note that when purchasing flights.
Overview of the TAAI, from FamilyRelationsInstitute.org.
“The Transition to Adulthood Attachment Interview is a procedure for assessing older adolescents’ and young adults’ strategies for identifying, preventing, and protecting the self from perceived dangers, particularly dangers tied to intimate relationships. The assessment uses a modified version of the Adult Attachment Interview (George, Kaplan, & Main, 1986, 1996).
The modification is designed to address the competencies and salient issues of young adults during the transition to adulthood (~16-25 years). Specifically, it assumes that young adults still turn, in part, to their childhood figures for protection, psychological comfort, and/or financial support while concurrently developing attachment relationships with peer partners and financial independence. Further, it assumes that cortical maturation is still in progress, but that it permits abstract thought, particularly about relationships in the present.
“The course offered by Dr. Crittenden is based on the Dynamic-maturational model that expands Bowlby-Ainsworth theory (Crittenden, 1995, 2000, 2002) and the DMM extension of the Main and Goldwyn coding method (Crittenden, 1999; Crittenden, 1998-present).
“The DMM approach to the Transition to Adulthood Attachment Interview (TAAI) is both a useful research tool and also a potential guide for psychotherapists. Therapists, in particular, learn not only new ways to conceptualize disturbed development, but also ways to identify young adults’ distortions of the mental processing of information, particularly information relevant to disorders of feelings, thought, and behavior. The techniques for interpreting speech can be useful even if the therapist does not formally use the interview itself in practice.”