THE DYNAMIC MATURATIVE MODEL FOR ATTACHMENT

AGATA MALTESE^1*, BEATRICE GALLAI^2*, PALMIRA ROMANO^3*, LUCREZIA D’ORO⁴, ROSA MAROTTA⁵, FRANCESCO LAVANO⁵, SERENA MARIANNA LAVANO⁵, GABRIELE TRIPI^6,7, MARGHERITA SALERNO⁸

¹Department of Psychological, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, University of Palermo, Italy - ²Department of Surgical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy - ³Centro LARS, Sarno, Italy - ⁴Centro Relax, Benevento, Italy - ⁵Department of Medical and Surgery Sciences, University “Magna Graecia”, Catanzaro, Italy - ⁶Department PROSAMI, University of Palermo, Italy - ⁷Childhood Psychiatric Service for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, CH Chinon, France - ⁸Sciences for Mother and Child Health Promotion, University of Palermo, Italy

The Dynamic-Maturation Model (DMM) was developed by Patricia Crittenden (1-4), which focused its studies on attachment to different ethnic, socio-cultural and dangers as families in which episodes of Maltreatment and abuse or families with high psycho- social risk. Crittenden proposes new protocols of the Strange Situation (SS) and the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) based on a coding and classification system derived from the model proposed by Ainsworth, but modified and enriched with that of Main, Goldwyn and Hesse. The SS procedure, adopted for children aged between 10 and 18 months, is valid until all preschool age, assu- ming This way the name of the Preschool Assessment of Attachment (PAA).