Raising Parents

Patricia M. Crittenden received her Ph.D. as a psychologist in the Social Ecology and Development Program at the University of Virginia. She received a career achievement award for 'Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Child and Family Development' from the European Family Therapy Association in Berlin in 2004 and currently works cross-culturally as a developmental psychopathologist developing theory and a developmentally attuned, life-span set of procedures for assessing self-protective strategies.

Part 1: 1. Yesterday's Children: Today's Mothers and Fathers 2. Early childhood: learning to be safe at home 3. Going to school: coping with a complex world 4. Becoming an adult: leaving and loving 5. Remembering the future: the process of mental representation 6. How do parents affect children's representations? Part 2: 7. Representation and child-rearing that endangers children 8. Distortions of normal child protective behaviour: marginal maltreatment of children 9. Distortions of normal child protective behaviour: physical abuse of children 10. Parents whose own needs skew their perceptions: distortions that emphasize parental self-comfort 11. Parents whose own needs skew their perceptions: the absence of parental protection 12. Distortions that substitute erroneous information and accurate information that misconstrue children as being threatened 13.Distortions that substitute deadly delusional information for accurateinformation misconstruing the child as being the threat Part 3: 14. Why do we need a new theory of treatment? 15. The ideas that underlay the dynamic-maturational model as a meta-theory of treatment 16. The dynamic-maturational model as a comprehensive theory of treatment 17. Assessment relevant to differential treatment 18. Functional formulation and the plan for treatment 19. Psychological treatment and information processing 20. Psychological treatment: three exemplar cases 21. Improving the safety of children and families