IASA Board of Directors

IASA Board Members are professionals representing a range of various educational backgrounds, activities, countries. The variety of contributions is intended to promote the application of the dynamic-maturational model of attachment and adaptation (DMM) to helping children, families, couples and individuals in many different contexts (for example health care, social policies, legal systems), to encourage research using DMM theories and assessments, and to help the diffusion, discussion and modification of DMM theory and data in academic, professional and community contexts.

IASA Chair and Conference Program Committee Chair

Patricia M. Crittenden, Ph.D. (USA)
www.patcrittenden.com

Patricia McKinsey Crittenden, Ph.D. is a developmental psychopathologist who developed the Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM) of attachment and adaptation. She earned a B.A. at American University (1966), a M.Ed. (Mental Retardation and Emotional Disturbance) at the University of Virginia (1969), and a Ph.D. (Psychology) at the University of Virginia (1983), studying under Mary D. S. Ainsworth. Her work with Mary Ainsworth culminated in the DMM. She completed a Senior Post-Doctoral Fellowship on sexual abuse at the University of New Hampshire (1992) with David Finkelhor. She has been on the faculties of the Universities of Virginia, Miami, Helsinki, and Bologna and Edith Cowan University in Australia. She held the Beverley Professorship at the Clark Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto in 1994 and was appointed Distinguished Professor at San Diego State University in California. In 2004, she was given a Career Achievement Award by the European Family Therapy Association. She is currently Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.

She pioneered video-feedback intervention for maltreating mothers in the early 1970’s, designed and implemented a family support center for low income families, trained as both a behavioral and family systems therapist, became the Director of the Miami Child Protection Team, and has consulted to family courts in several countries.

Finally, she has developed a life-span series of seven assessments of attachment. Among these is the CARE-Index which was developed under Mary Ainsworth’s guidance and with consultation from John Bowlby. She has published more than 100 empirical papers and chapters, as well as several books: Crittenden (2008), Raising Parents: Attachment, Parenting, and Child Safety; Crittenden & Landini (in press), The Adult Attachment Interview: Looking Behind the Mind’s Curtain; Crittenden & Dallos, Attachment & Family Systems Therapy (McGraw-Hill); Crittenden & Claussen, (Eds., 2000), The Organization of Attachment Relationships: Maturation, Culture, and Context.

Membership Chair

Andrea Landini, M.D. (Italy)

Andrea Landini, M.D., is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. He received his medical training at the University of Modena and his training as a Cognitive-Constructivist Psychotherapist at Centro Studi in Psicoterapia Cognitiva (Firenze). His clinical practice includes psychotherapy with adults and adolescents, work with parents, supervision of staff caring for out-of-home youth, and supervision of psychotherapy students. For two decades, he collaborated with Crittenden in the development of the Dynamic-Maturational Model, translating four books of her writings in Italian, publishing many chapters of his own on both assessment using DMM assessments and also applications of the DMM to intervention and treatment. He has participated in numerous research projects and is an author on publications resulting from them. He teaches the DMM and its assessment methods in Italy and internationally and is on the permanent faculty of Scuola Bolognese di Psicoterapia Cognitiva, and on the visiting faculties of several other Italian schools of cognitive and family systems psychotherapy.

Treasurer

Lane Strathearn MBBS FRACP Ph.D. (USA / Australia)

Dr. Strathearn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and a developmental paediatrician at Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA. His research and clinical work focuses on maternal neglect and the neurobiology of mother-infant attachment. He is also interested in the long-term effects of child maltreatment on cognitive and emotional development, and early childhood factors that may help to protect against abuse or neglect. This includes longitudinal studies of women and infants, examining mothers’ brain and hormonal responses to infant face cues using functional MRI and behavioral observation (see Pediatrics 2008;122(1):40-51). One recent study demonstrated that adult attachment strategies, as determined from the DMM Adult Attachment Interview, were associated with maternal brain and oxytocin responses (Neuropsychopharmacology 2009;34(13):2655-66). His most recent grant will support research into maternal brain responses of cocaine addicted mothers, and the potential role of intranasal oxytocin to enhance maternal caregiving. A native of Brisbane, Australia, he is also the father of 7 children.

Hyperlink references above to: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/122/1/40 and http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v34/n13/full/npp2009103a.html

Other Directors

Bente Nilsen (Norway)

Bente Nilsen is a clinical child psychologist who received her training at the University of Oslo and at the Institute for Active Psychotherapy. She is currently working at the Child and Adolescent Clinic (BUP Baerum) in Asker and Baerum Hospital. She specializes in working with families from pregnancy through the preschool years. DMM is central in this work. Bente was a presenter at the 2006 World Conference on Prevention in Oslo. Bente previously worked for 12 years at the Aline Center and Clinic in Oslo. During these years she collaborated in organizing the Aline Clinic as an outpatient unit serving both the Aline center and also high risk families in the municipality of Oslo. Bente also consults with the Child Protection offices and courts in forensic work involving families with preschool children.
She has been trained in AAI, PAA, CARE-Index and SAA by Dr. Patricia Crittenden over the past 15 years. She is a reliable coder of several of these assessments and is an authorized trainer of the CARE-Index and the PAA. The DMM is central to her clinical work, in teaching and supervising psychologists and other mental health professionals. She has contributed to several research projects using DMM.

Martin Stokowy, Dr. med. (Germany)

Martin Stokowy is a physician, trained neurologist, psychiatrist and psychotherapist with training in psychodynamic and systemic psychotherapy. He is currently the Assistant Medical Director of the psychiatric Hospital Tagesklinik Alteburger Straße in Cologne, Germany. He specializes in psychotherapy with psychotic and depressive patients and mother-infant therapy.
He was introduced to the DMM in 2005 and has had trainings in Adult Attachment Interview and CARE Index. He joined the IASA board in 2010.

Airi Hautamäki, Ph.D. (Finland)

Airi Hautamäki is professor in social psychology and psychology, Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, as well as docent in educational psychology, University of Helsinki, and docent in the psychology of women, University of Joensuu. 1996 she became Academician, full, foreign member of the Academy of Pedagogical and Social Science of Russia. Prof. Hautamäki is an educational and developmental psychological family and attachment researcher and has led many research projects. Her publications in English, Russian, Japanese, Swedish and Finnish have ranged from educational issues (e.g., PISA) and parenting to war trauma and transmission of attachment across generations, including Hautamäki, A. & Coleman, P.G. (2001; reprinted 2009 in M. Orrell & A. Spector (Eds.), Psychology and aging. International Library of Psychology). Explanation for low prevalence of PTSD among older Finnish war veterans: social solidarity and continued significance given to wartime sufferings. Her forthcoming articles include transmission of attachment across three generations, and silencing the self across generations and gender in Finland (in D.C. Jack & A. Ali (Eds.), Silencing the self across cultures. Depression and gender in the social world. Oxford University Press). She has supervised numerous doctoral dissertations and teaches CARE-Index in Finland.

Nicole Letourneau, Ph.D. (Canada)

Nicole Letourneau received her Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of Alberta in 1998. She is tenured full Professor at the University of Calgary and holds the Norlien/ACHF Chair in Parent-Infant Mental Health. Previously, she was the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Healthy Child Development in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of New Brunswick. She is PI of the CHILD (Child Health Intervention and Longitudinal Development) Studies Program studying parenting, attachment and child development in the context of maternal depression, family violence, and substance abuse. Her most recent study examines the mediating influence of maternal attachment behaviours on the relationship between maternal mental distress during pregnancy and infant Hypothalmic Pituitary Adrenal axis responses. All of her research is community-based and seeks to develop evidence to guide best practice in parent-child support and intervention. She has received many honours for her scholarly work including being named Canada’s Premier Young Researcher by CIHR in 2006, to Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2007, and to Who’s Who in Canada in 2008 and 2009. She has published (or in press) 70 peer-reviewed papers, 13 chapters and book contributions and presented her research over 150 times. As Principal or Co-Principal Investigator she has earned over 5 million dollars from national and regional funders. As Co-Investigator, she has earned nearly 10 million more research dollars for her projects.

Catherine Thomas, MRCPsych (South Africa/UK)

Dr. Catherine Thomas is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who works in a Child and Adolescent community based mental health team in the United Kingdom. She has had training in the use of the Care-Index, School Age Assessment of Attachment and the Adult Attachment Interview. The DMM forms the basis of her approach to work with young people and their families, as well as her supervision and consultation to the clinical team and wider agencies. She was the Chair of the Venue Committee for the IASA Conference in Cambridge 2010.

Emilia Sasson (Uruguay)

Emilia Sasson is a clinical psychologist (D.E.S.S University Paris VII, France). She received psychoanalytical and family systemic training. Her clinical work includes adult and parent infant psychotherapy. She is currently involved in early infancy health and educational programs ( Atencion a la Temprana Infancia y sus familias). DMM became very meaningful to her work since 2005. She received training in the CARE-Index and PAA. She is a trainer and coder.

Augusto Zagmutt (Chile)

Augusto Zagmutt qualified as a psychologist in 1972 at the Universidad de Chile. He was a visiting fellow in the Psychotherapy Unit, University Diego Portales, a position he now holds in the Master in Clinical Psychology, Universidad de Chile. He is also a Clinical & Supervisor Psychologist and Fellow on the National Commission of Accreditation for Clinical Psychologists. Further, he has held positions on a number of professional boards: Chairman of the Post-rationalistic Cognitive Therapy Society, President, Asociacion Latinoamericana de Terapias Cognitivas , ALAPCO, and Writing Secretary, Journal of the Scholarly Society of Psychology of Chile. He is the Founder and first president of the Chilean Society of Clinical Psychology, Founder and former editor, Journal Psychological Therapy, and Founding Director, Post-rationalistic Cognitive Therapy Society.

He has editorial experience, organization of conferences, contacts throughout Latin America, cognitive psychotherapy, expertise in treating psychological trauma, multi-cultural experience. He has numerous publications regarding behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, and most recently, post-rationalist cognitive psychotherapy.He works as a Clinical Psychologist in Santiago de Chile.