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I have found the principles guiding dialectic behaviour therapy (DBT; see Miller, Rathus, &amp; Linehan, 2007, for applying DBT to adolescents) extremely useful in my practice running a general adolescent unit; similarly, the understanding of the different information processing and learning principles associated with each of the Type A and C attachment strategies, as understood in dynamic maturational model (DMM), has guided me through the dark corners of treatment. Specifically, how does DMM inform practice of DBT? As a \u2018DBTer\u2019 might say, \u2018Where is the wisdom in both points of view?\u2019 Nevertheless, DMM is not primarily about treatment. It concerns how different ways of adapting to developmental contingencies bias perceptual propensities, and hence the information available for reflective brain function. Recognition of these twists to knowing what is going on can then be used to inform a variety of therapeutic approaches. The purpose of this article is to look for the signposts in DBT and DMM which together help navigate the comprehensive approach necessary in complicated therapy. In the process, hopefully some more general principles for addressing discomfited adolescents arise for informing future practice. Although many steer shy of using personality disorder diagnoses for adolescents, clinicians are nevertheless addressing, directly or indirectly, the personality development of all adolescents in treatment, regardless of their classical axis I diagnoses, including both those with developing emotional instability and a group of avoidant over-controlled adolescents, which in Norway is growing in prominence.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/1359104514558430","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,11,20]],"date-time":"2014-11-20T01:49:09Z","timestamp":1416448149000},"page":"95-107","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Enriching practice of dialectic behaviour therapy with the dynamic maturational model of attachment and adaptation"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Simon R","family":"Wilkinson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Oslo University Hospital, Norway"},{"name":"Author is currently affiliated to Akershus University Hospital, Division Mental Health Services, L\u00f8renskog, Norway"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,11,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-1359104514558430","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1037\/0021-843X.87.1.49"},{"key":"bibr2-1359104514558430","volume-title":"Loss: Sadness and depression","author":"Bowlby J.","year":"1981"},{"key":"bibr3-1359104514558430","volume-title":"A secure base: Clinical applications of attachment theory","author":"Bowlby J.","year":"1988"},{"key":"bibr4-1359104514558430","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1037\/0033-295X.101.4.568"},{"key":"bibr5-1359104514558430","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S0954579409990174"},{"key":"bibr6-1359104514558430","first-page":"72","volume":"1","author":"Crittenden P. 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