Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD): Overview
Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is described in clinical literature as a severe and relatively uncommon attachment disorder that can affect kids. REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER is characterized by...
View ArticleReactive Attachment Disorder: Our Story
I had heard of the terms before, but until I agreed to take my 13-year-old niece in, “Reactive Attachment Disorder” (RAD), sometimes known as “detachment disorder”, or simply “attachment disorder”,...
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All About Attachment Disorder: An Overview
Attachment disorders are the psychological result of negative experiences with caretakers, usually since infancy, that disrupt the exclusive and unique relationship between kids and their primary...
View ArticleRisk Factors for Reactive Attachment Disorder
Reactive attachment disorder is considered uncommon. It can affect kids of any race or either sex. By definition, reactive attachment disorder begins before age 5, although its roots start in...
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Preventing Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)
While it's not known if reactive attachment disorder can be prevented with certainty, there may be ways to reduce the risk of its development:Be actively engaged with babies and kids in your care by...
View ArticleSecure Attachment
The research in the field of attachment opens up a whole new world for all of us in understanding the problems of parents and kids. Attachment is the emotional connection between any two people....
View ArticleInsecure Attachment and Attachment Disorders
Symptoms and Repair of Poor Attachment and Reactive Attachment Disorder—When babies and young kids have a loving caregiver consistently responding to their needs, they build a secure attachment. This...
View ArticleAttachment and Adult Relationships
How the Attachment Bond Shapes Adult Relationships—You were born pre-programmed to bond with one very significant person—your primary caretaker, probably your mother. Like all babies, you were a bundle...
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PARENTING CHILDREN & TEENS WITH REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER
What doesn't work:1. Attempting to persuade the RAD youngster to change his mind by presenting “logical, reasonable, or “practical information”. RAD kids are highly unlikely to be influenced by...
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What happens when the mother reassigns a different motive to the child's cry and decides not to be responsive?A youngster cries for a reason - not to manipulate his parent, not to be mean, or nasty, or...
View ArticleAdoptive Parents and Reactive Attachment Disorder
A major problem with the diagnosis of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is the painful truth that many of the very individuals we moms and dads turn to for help - professionals in the mental health,...
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Natural Consequences for RAD Children & Teens
Lectures, warnings, hollering, bribes, second chances and reminders do NOT work.You are wasting your time and breath. Your youngster knows the rules – he just refuses to obey your rules! Remember – her...
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Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD): Warning Signs, Symptoms, Treatment
Attachment is the deep and lasting connection established between a youngster and caretaker in the first few years of life. It profoundly affects your youngster’s development and his or her ability to...
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Reactive Attachment Disorder: Self-Test
Does your child or teenager have Reactive Attachment Disorder? Take this test to find out:1. Avoids or resists physical closeness and touch Y/N2. Bossy with peers Y/N3. Cannot be trusted Y/N4....
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Control and Limit-Setting for RAD Children & Teens
Parenting a youngster with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is extremely challenging, intense and exhausting, but the rewards are equal to the difficulty of the task. Not all attachment therapists...
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Self-Test for Reactive Attachment Disorder [RAD]
How can you know if your RAD teenager needs to be placed in a residential treatment program? Take the self-test below. If your RAD teen has 10 or more of the following symptoms/conditions, then chances...
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Reactive Attachment Disorder in Defiant Teens
As kids with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) become adolescents, the outward issues change, but the root causes are the same: inability to form intimate reciprocal relationships or to empathize,...
View ArticleMost Recent Articles on Parenting RAD Children and Teens
1. All About Attachment Disorder: An Overview2. Adoptive Parents and Reactive Attachment Disorder3. Attachment and Adult Relationships4. Control and Limit-Setting for RAD Children...
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