ABSTRACT
The Dynamic-Maturational Model (DMM) of attachment and adaptation represents an attempt to organize ideas from other theories and bodies of knowledge (including clinical expertise) into a coherent developmental model of human adaptation that is inclusive of regulatory processes from genes to cultures. Very little of the DMM is new; in fact, most is drawn from the work of others and is only new in how the work is connected. Even many of the patterns described in the DMM have been described by other people. What is new are the hypotheses regarding the way that they are connected developmentally (as person-experience interactions),1 functionally (as context-specific, adaptive strategies), and structurally (in terms of underlying information processing). It is hoped that this organization will enable new findings and observations to be related to the existing knowledge base more easily such that their implications will be understood more quickly.
