Transition to Adulthood Attachment Interview for 16-25-year-olds for normative & mild clinical conditions (2025)

The TAAI is an adaptation of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) for emerging adults. Unlike the AAI, it does not presume cortical maturity, nor experience as a partner in a committed relationship nor as a parent. Instead, the questions and analysis are tied to adolescent brain maturity during the period of early sexual relationships, increasing independence from parents, and establishment of an adult family. Because this decade involves many major changes, the course is taught in three age-defined parts, each lasting 5 days.

A separate advanced clinical course addresses serious clinical conditions.

Dates:

• Week 1, 16-19-year-olds: Sept 27 – Oct 2, 2025
• Week 2, 20-25-year olds: Nov 21 – Nov 26, 2025

In addition, there are weekly practice assignments between the scheduled weeks, with work due by email on Wednesdays and Sundays. Each participant is also expected to produce 1 TAAI that they administer for each week of the course; feedback is given on interviewing and a Certificate of Interviewing can be earned.

Time:

• Sydney: 2am* – 6am* (*the next day), plus a facilitator meeting
• China: 11pm – 3am*, plus a facilitator meeting
• CET: 4pm-8pm, plus a facilitator meeting
• UK: 3pm-7pm, plus a facilitator meeting
• EST: 10am-2pm, plus a facilitator meeting
• PST: 7am-11am , plus a facilitator meeting

Location: Your home, by Zoom.

Instructors: Patricia Crittenden, PhD, a co-trainer and facilitators.

Prerequisite: Course participants must have taken Adult Attachment Interview  course, but reliability is not required. If the AAI was taken before 2024, extra time to learn the changes in the discourse markers should be planned.

Language: English, but the TAAI assignment may be completed in other languages.

Content: This course uses the discourse analysis for the AAI, for normative and (mild) out-patient clinical applications, with a different interview (the TAAI) and modified classificatory guidelines suited to the transition to adulthood. There is a requirement to submit 1 transcribed TAAI, carried out by the course participant for each week of the course. This work must be completed to receive a certificate for attending the course and administering the TAAI (for example, for court evaluations). For more information, see www.familyrelationsinstitute.org.

Cost: The course costs $2500. The early-bird cost is $2000, if payment is received by May 31, 2025.

The registration fee covers the course, plus feedback on interviewing quality of the participant’s TAAIs. For those whose performance indicates readiness for the test, a reliability test follows course (and is included at no further cost).

Enrollment is not guaranteed until payment is made. Payment must be complete before the course is begun. All payments are non-refundable. Invoicing and receipts involve extra charges.

Registration: Please contact Patricia M. Crittenden, PhD regarding registration (pmcrittenden@gmail.com). There is a limited number of participants. The course may be cancelled if fewer than six people register; please note that when purchasing flights.