ABSTRACT
The School-aged Assessment of Attachment (SAA) is a recently developed, semi-structured clinical interview that identifies patterns of attachment for children age six to thirteen years using the Dynamic-Maturational Model of attachment and adaptation (DMM). The DMM model describes patterns of attachment, also known as self-protective strategies, which lie within three distinct developmental pathways: Types A, B & C (see Chapter 1 and Crittenden 1995–2007; Crittenden 2006a).
