The DMM Model facilitates attachment-based practice with families.

• From birth onwards, a child's attachment system is activated to signal their need for protection from danger and for comfort.

• To aid adaptive development, children need healthy relationships with an attachment figure who can provide comfort and protection from danger.

• Attachment functioning shapes neural development and emotional and biological regulation processes, which impact relationships and parenting throughout life.

• The model encompasses a range of assessments which can be used across the lifespan.

  • These seek to identify the self-protective strategies which underlie the individual's main attachment strategy.

  • They also uncover unresolved trauma and grief.

• By administering a range of assessments, the attachment strategies used by family members, both children and adults, can be analysed to see how they are expressed both verbally and non-verbally.

• Such understanding can lead to changing beliefs, feelings and family relationships.

• Please see the:

  • DMM Assessment Procedures page.

  • Fees page.