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Patricia M. Crittenden

Patricia M. Crittenden

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Psychology

D-Index
39
Citations
8186
World Ranking
8475
National Ranking
4534

Overview

Patricia M. Crittenden is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with particular focus on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Safety Research, General Health Professions, and Demography.

The scientist's work examines a range of topics, including:

  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Patricia M. Crittenden include:

  • Andrea Landini
  • Susan J. Spieker
  • Ben Grey
  • Steve Farnfield
  • Rudi Dallos

The main publication venues for this scientist are:

  • Human Systems Therapy Culture and Attachments
  • Child Abuse Review
  • Revista de Psicoterapia
  • American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
  • Contemporary Family Therapy

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Patricia M. Crittenden illustrate the scope of their research interests:

  • Staying alive: A 21st century agenda for mental health, child protection and forensic services (2021), Human Systems Therapy Culture and Attachments
  • Using Parental Attachment in Family Court Proceedings: An Empirical Study of the DMM-AAI (2021), Child Abuse Review
  • Using Parental Attachment in Family Court Proceedings: DMM Theory about the Adult Attachment Interview (2021), Child Abuse Review
  • Caring for healthcare providers in COVID-19 (2021), American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
  • Sexual signals and behavior in children: Building hypotheses about the function of sexuality in childhood (2023), Human Systems Therapy Culture and Attachments

Best Publications

  • Physical and psychological maltreatment: relations among types of maltreatment.

    Angelika H. Claussen;Patricia M. Crittenden

  • Child maltreatment: Child maltreatment and attachment theory

    Patricia M. Crittenden;Mary D. S. Ainsworth

  • Attachment and psychopathology.

    Patricia McKinsey Crittenden

  • MALTREATED INFANTS: VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE

    Patricia M. Crittenden

  • Quality of attachment in the preschool years

    Patricia M. Crittenden

  • Internal representational models of attachment relationships

    Patricia M. Crittenden

  • Relationships at risk.

    Patricia Crittenden

  • Social Networks, Quality of Child Rearing, and Child Development.

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  • Children's strategies for coping with adverse home environments : An interpretation using attachment theory

    Patricia M. Crittenden

  • A Dynamic‐Maturational Model of Attachment

    Patricia M. Crittenden

  • Compulsive compliance: the development of an inhibitory coping strategy in infancy.

    Patricia M. Crittenden;David L. DiLalla

  • Raising Parents : Attachment, Parenting and Child Safety

    Patricia McKinsey Crittenden

  • The Organization of Attachment Relationships: Maturation, Culture, and Context

    Patricia McKinsey Crittenden;Angelika Hartl Claussen

  • The relationship between maternal risk status and maternal sensitivity.

    Patricia M. Crittenden;John D. Bonvillian

  • Eating disorders and attachment: the effects of hidden family processes on eating disorders.

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  • Chapter VII. Danger and Development: The Organization of Self-Protective Strategies

    Patricia McKinsey Crittenden

  • Assessing Adult Attachment: A Dynamic-Maturational Approach to Discourse Analysis

    Patricia McKinsey Crittenden;Andrea Landini

  • Family patterns of relationship in normative and dysfunctional families

    Patricia M. Crittenden;Mary F. Partridge;Angelika H. Claussen

  • Physical and psychological maltreatment in middle childhood and adolescence

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  • Family and dyadic patterns of functioning in maltreating families.

    Patricia Crittenden

  • Distorted patterns of relationship in maltreating families: The role of internal representation models

    Patricia M. Crittenden

  • Danger and Development: The Organization of Self-Protective Strategies.

    Patricia McKinsey Crittenden

  • Developmental Trends in the Nature of Child Homicide

    Patricia M. Crittenden;Susan E. Craig

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan J. Spieker
Susan J. Spieker University of Washington
Charles B. Fleming
Charles B. Fleming University of Washington

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